A secondary issue was the time investment. Now that I no longer care about trying to educate Reddit, I have time to ... not do that -- there is always something better to do than to converse with people that don't want to converse with you.
If HN "goes to shit", you can bet that I will get fed up and leave. It doesn't bother me much -- the people that I like on HN will probably go to the same place.
(Plus, HN does good things like completely deleting comments that are just going to attract flames. Censorship sucks, but if you want to talk without being deleted, get a blog. Hopefully HN's aggressiveness here will ensure that it remains the "island" to hop to for a few more years.)
If HN "goes to shit", you can bet that I will get fed up and leave. It doesn't bother me much -- the people that I like on HN will probably go to the same place.
(Plus, HN does good things like completely deleting comments that are just going to attract flames. Censorship sucks, but if you want to talk without being deleted, get a blog. Hopefully HN's aggressiveness here will ensure that it remains the "island" to hop to for a few more years.)