You can write howtos, news roundups and other actually useful posts for days (and there's not much feedback), but whenever you do a "well, let's just throw some opinion + memories together and publish it" post it all of a sudden gets a ton of attention.
#humanityisweird
(See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31806639 if you wonder what this is about.)
@linmob yup the direction that those comments took seems to be hackernews working as expected.
That is one of the reasons I stopped reading stuff there.
