a) I feel like the quality of comments on HN decreased since Covid started. Possibly because of more people having too much time.

b) Funnily enough when looking at the old thread, I happened upon a comment of mine "The title is pure linkbait. What they are trying to hide behind their typical populist wording[…]" which made me feel ashamed (not only because it seems to make little sense, but also because of the hostility displayed).

Apart from communication style, how has your thoughts about sugar changed?

To answer that question, I’d need to understand my comment from back then. Which I do not.

But in general, roughly 1 year later I started with a ketogenic diet, so sugar really hasn’t much to do with me anymore ;)

I don't know–sometimes the past threads seem noticeably worse as well. It's hard to say anything reliable about this.

> Weirdly enough the comments on this thread seem much less disjointed and hostile than the comments on most hn and Twitter posts nowadays. People actuality respond in good faith. Seems the internet really did a number on us this past decade

The bots haven't shown up. The workday is just starting on the US east coast; the marketing teams don't know what's being said yet. Give it time.

Please don't break the site guidelines like this.

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

If you have any evidence about it, even an iota, please let us know at [email protected] so we can investigate. If you don't have evidence, then this is just fertile internet imagination of the sort which overwhelmingly dominates the topic and is why we have that rule in the first place.

Edit: we've had to ask you about just this sort of thing before (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23237584). Please don't do it again.