The barrier on HN is higher, but it's happening. Same on reddit. I'm my local sub, any time a political topic comes up, a horde of low karma, low activity accounts come online to cheer the administration or ask fake "concern troll" questions. The Internet of today is not the Internet of 2005.

I'm not allowed to disagree with people? What is wrong with you? And yeah, I use this site rarely. I also work and program and do many other things in my free time.

That means I say things people disagree with. I am much like the rest of users here: live in a major city, STEM job, and so on.