Although I'm pretty sure you made this comment to be troll bait, I'm upvoting it.
>You can't change a community you can only leave it.
This is very very true. I've quit many communities because they devolved into noise and spam. I've publicly said that I came to HN merely because I wanted a good list of links worth reading, and somehow I ended up with an account and almost 1000 karma.
I suspect in the next 2-3 years I'll leave HN because it really will have jumped the shark by then. Although, I think the discussion of the slashdotification of HN is off-topic according to the rules.
If there is a discussion where troll bait might be appropriate it is this one. I actually read it as a sort of half-troll, half-satire on the original post, and thought it was actually pretty good. Though if I had written it I would have added stuff to obviously mark ti as satire like:
Because Linux is dying, BSD is set for world domination, and Microsoft writes the world's most robust software in the world. After all they write database servers which are used to run nuclear reactors!
(How many classic trolls can I satirize in one post? I don't know.)
