Almost everywhere on the internet is like this. It's hn that is (mostly!) exceptional.

The “mostly” there is so important! But also HN suffers from other problems (see in this thread the discussion about over policing comments, and calling fast hyperbolic and inflammatory).

And don’t get me started in the decline on depth in technical topics and soaring in political discussions. I came to HN for the first, not the second.

So we are humans, there will never be a perfect forum.