"Absolutely no one" and "1%" have entirely different meanings to me. I thought it important to highlight the "insignificant" case (of which I am a member) to avoid some notion that this applies to 100% of people in reality. The way we usually go on about work around here concerns me, and I fear we risk alienating a very energetic and well-meaning segment of the community.

HN comments (and in general, forum comments) are not PhD theses, they're generic, casual comments that in many cases try to tell a story.

Hyperbole is to be expected.

Hyperbole or not it has an impact when repeated like some religion. This comment thread is making me not want to participate on hackernews.

I think (I don't know you) that I wouldn't want you to do that, but to each their own.

You sound like you're having a bad day outside of HN, as this has been just a regular and might I say, civil, chat, otherwise.

A temporary break from HN (or social media in general), might not be a bad idea :-)