I have very few friends. I have a discriminating taste aka standards.

Something society has lost.

I would predict the reason you have few friends has less to do with your standards and more to do with other people's standards.

We've banned this account for breaking the site guidelines. If you don't want to be banned on HN, you're welcome to email [email protected] and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html