You know what the real test of HN is? Whether we can be redditish without becoming reddit. Until we can do that, we're just fooling ourselves.

Certain behaviors, such as long chains of sarcastic comments, should be avoided, even as a test. In fact, sarcasm itself seems pretty dangerous to a social site.

I think an exception should be made for posts to crap like 4 hour work week.

True. The article is more at home there as well.