The contempt is probably not the topic but the lack of empathy in the descriptions and language in the topic.

Qualitative precision matters. HN crowd presumably loves true social network academics.

Dark forest Vs real could probably be described by networks.

Also Social Media Networks are conversational markets, run by market makers with different kinds of incentives. I do not recall seeing descriptions like this but it would bring real empathy to the space to merely describe things like this.

Broadcast all is NOT the norm in price discovery. Why is it the starting point in social networks? We are brainwashed.