>Reddit grew up as a community of edgelords. Trying to be funny by exaggeratedly insulting others is just how it was. Think a community of Ben Shapiros. Coming to the site as an outsider could be brutal until you got used to ignoring it (or engaging, if you're into it).

Reddit was rather similar to HN in the earliest days: https://web.archive.org/web/20060415194256/http://www.reddit...