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One thing can be both a point of ridicule and an opinion forge. Pitchfork music reviews come to mind.

Where is HN being ridiculed?

You've heard of this thing called "Twitter"?

This is just another bot-riddled echo chamber, with disagreements over trivialities instead of what actually matters in the world

It's a bot riddled echo chamber because there is influence generated here.

Who exactly is being influenced?

Everyone.

Utter nonsense. People are laughing their asses off at the amount of idiocy on this web site.