Sorry, that's not very compelling. Would you call the thousands of other TechCrunch posts that are auto-submitted to HN "pandering to Reddit"?

I regret to inform you that my nerdy Ron Paul advocacy will continue unabated. Reddit has nothing to do with it.

Maybe he's saying Ron Paul was pandering to Reddit. I really can't tell.

Maybe I put "pandering to Reddit" in quotes to emphasize how ridiculous that is. Maybe people should stop referring to everything they dislike on HN as Reddit-pandering, replete with tinfoil hats.

Huh. I thought you were quoting. That's usually what quotation marks are used for. My apologies.

Been there recently? Reddit, as far as you can say it "likes" or "dislikes" anything, does not like Paul.

Everyone hates him. He's too liberal for liberals and too conservative for conservatives.

No, he is too socially conservative for liberals.

Don't confuse "Libertarian" with "liberal".

Don't confuse classical liberalism with American liberalism.

Right, which is worrisome. The reddit trajectory was: "intellectual and polite" -> "smart and combative" -> "kinda dumb and hive-minded" -> "lolcats". Simultaneously its median opinion towards Ron Paul seemed to go: "interesting" -> "savior" -> "devil" -> "who?". So it'd be another indicator that HN is sliding if we're becoming more enthused by Ron Paul. (I voted for him, btw.)