>(BTW, in my experience HN is the best place i know where "whats being said" is more important and have an authority on its own, and the reason why i keep coming back here)
I agree. Still, even though it is the "best" it is still quite bad and this very article proves the point.
We need to switch our brains to focus on what is being said instead and a lot of people have a problem with this.
When there's no way to define the authority of who is saying it, the authority is transferred to the subject instead, in this case "Hacker News".
People will have a tendency to flock on the authority represented now by the subject.
(BTW, in my experience HN is the best place i know where "whats being said" is more important and have an authority on its own, and the reason why i keep coming back here)