Not sure if sarcastic or not (and I'm normally pretty good at that).

https://old.reddit.com/user/cstross

So, to be fair reddit is supposedly the 18th most visited site online today[1]. Given it's popularity i guess i won't hold it against Stross. I, myself, find it somewhat hard to avoid, though i try my best and steer clear. IMHO it's just one of those toxic places, though there are many of them online. Actually it's becoming sort of like a fundamental law of tech and online these days(that everything is toxic - actually there are a few places that aren't so bad, but they are becoming harder to find). Someone should write a book. Funny, i didn't realize Ohanian had a connection to HN[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_Ohanian