This article actually makes me think of something I first liked about hacker news: I noticed that posts which went against widely accepted views tended to be up-voted.

Seriously, even now when I'm writing something people like it'll generally ok on any site. If I write something I think is well founded and people will not agree with, it'll probably do better on hacker news.

I guess that reminds me to read and up-vote things that I didn't initially like...