Thanks for this comment, nostromo. You've managed to address privacy problems with the Linkedin Intro while praising the technical solution. This is a great example of constructive criticism that I, for one, would like to see more on HN. Constant raging decreases the efficiency of knowledge transfer and community building.
Maybe one such comment / thread would be enough to significantly increase quality of a discussion.
My sarcasm processing engine had a coredump. I have no idea who is sincere anymore in this thread. Please turn on sarcasm tags so I should know whether to agree/disagree, be pissed, etc.
We need to have user-generated labels attached to comments: sarcastic, flamebait, ___domain expert, etc. And then go even more meta and have algorithmically and/or privileged users affirm the label. Lets throw in some labels for common cognitive biases, statistical errors, logical fallacies and eagerly slap them on all popular offending comments. And then go all in on multivariate testing of mutations of algorithms optimizing for best (your definition may very) discourse.
If such thing would happen and became popular, someone-is-wrong-on-the-internet crowd would be puking rainbows all day long.
I guess it is a question of time this becoming feasible.
Maybe one such comment / thread would be enough to significantly increase quality of a discussion.