The only way to address that is for us all to start seeing the same insufferability in ourselves. That's why the site guidelines now include "Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community." — as a tentative first step in that direction.

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

Let's hope that HN is around for the rest of our lives because it will probably take at least that long.

Edit: I pinched this comment for a long explanation upthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27145616