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/u/xdennis has an excellent analogy in this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30351065

Complaining about HN's toxicity when you're spending multiple hours on it every day is like an alcoholic complaining about the fact that it's easy to buy liquor. It's not an entirely invalid complaint, but the problem is that it's not actionable because prohibition doesn't work. The only viable solution for the addict is to find a way to stop drinking.




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