Yes, and if it turned out that hacker news was doing anything unscrupulous I would have no problem dropping it. I don't care what the rest of society does, start with you and yourself.

If you want to make a public statement or have an open discussion, you need to be where the public is.

How often do you actually need to do that?

Ask the BLM movement. Why did they feel the need to block traffic? Couldn't they have just posted on facebook?

Besides, frequency of something isn't a good measure of its importance. "How often do you feel the need to vote?" is also the wrong question to ask.