Oh, please. That comment is in reply to one at the very, very bottom. (As I'm viewing it.)
Cherry-picking a single--frankly, not really that rude or terrible--comment isn't proving anything.
In either case, the "good old days" never existed. See: http://blog.bumblebeelabs.com/social-software-sundays-2-the-...
I get it, though. It feels good to be self-righteous. So let's go nuts, let's have this little drama in this thread and give PG and the mods another headache they don't want or need. As the owner of a social network for over five years, I feel for them.
> I get it, though. It feels good to be self-righteous.
This is, to put it mildly, uncharitable. If you're only interested in being part of the problem, I don't think we're going to find anything useful to say to each other, and I'll bid you adieu.
From literally the story directly under this one, #2 over all at the moment:
> Its an appeal to the Apple sycophants who troll this web site: "oh no who dares best my beloved Apple?!? I'd better click!"
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4706953
As I post this, the karma on that comment is currently > 0. Comments like that didn't used to happen "back in the day". Then they happened infrequently but pretty much everybody downvoted them into oblivion. Now they happen as a matter of course and get voted up instead of down.
The level of discourse has unquestionably gone downhill.