I frequently see people politely correcting misbehavior on HN. And I'm always astonished to see misbehaved users stand corrected in a polite way.
This is unimaginable in most major forums I know.
This is unimaginable in most major forums I know.
I'm taking OP's description of "warm" to mean "not hostile", which I think is true. I've seen people throw out baseless insults on front page threads and you can watch them be buried live in real time over the course of about 15 seconds.
It's one thing to have a set of civil house rules for a forum, but the community here is much better at enforcing them than any other I've seen in this space.