You mean you found the person who approaches bold claims with an appropriate amount of skepticism in a world increasingly inundated with hyperbolic or even outright misleading headlines? And then goes the extra mile to share their findings and constructively communicate their concerns to others who might also be subjected to the same hyperbole?

Yep, found them.

This place has become even worse than Reddit as karma farming goes…

Yeah I've noticed a serious uptick in the past ~2 years of bots and blatant shilling.

HN is arguably not as popular as reddit, but also not as complex, so smaller efforts to game the system work better.

What's the point?

I remember being excited when my karma crossed 1000 here for no reason. Nothing happened, obviously.

I wasnt karma farming.

Do you recall the time when one needed a certain karma score in order to downvote?

I never downvote, but there are times when I wanted to - but couldnt, even though I am way beyond the initial karma limit which was ~400 or something...

I've been on this site daily for 15 years.

I still never feel the need to upvote or downvote very often.

I also think its criminally funny that the HN forum lacks so many features of moderation, comment management, topic curation etc of even such of the companies they fund.

It works - because its a self-entrenched psuedo-sapio-walled-garden...

I love HN - but lets not act like its flawless.

You've been here since 2020...

me: https://i.imgur.com/qrNUzma.png

It was pretty obvious I was talking about the misleading headline at the OP. How did you come up that my comment was targeted at you I have no idea…

You don't generally "take" lion's mane mushrooms, you just eat them. As they are tasty, and won't give you any trips, neither to the emergency room or to nirvana.

Ya I accidentally stumbled into "taking" lions mane daily. In the process of breaking a caffeine addiction I sought out anything that was "coffee-like" as a replacement habit, and of the options, one that was simply one type of mushroom turned into powder seemed the 'most safe' easy choice.

Now I'm wondering how much of the (profound) benefits of ditching caffeine may have actually been enhancement by the lion's mane...