The positive-to-negative comment ratio in that thread is overwhelmingly in favor of positive. A couple of the top-voted posts are more critical, sure, but once you scroll past those it's full of support and inquisitiveness.

Edit: Even the person who posted the top-ranked comment, with the more negative tone, ended their follow-up response with, "All of your feedback was well-thought-out and appreciated; I only hope that I was able to give you a sneak preview of some of the potential criticisms you may receive. Best of luck to you!".

> A couple of the top-voted posts are more critical

A lot of people have the same critical opinion, only they didn't comment.

If we're going to assume that people agree with the post, then we should also be assuming that people agreed with OP's general tone, which really doesn't read as negative criticism so much as constructive criticism. Again, OP's second post was basically, "Appreciate your response to my feedback, best of luck!". Heck, if we're looking at "people who agree based on upvotes alone" then "This is genius, because so many people have this problem," is the second highest-voted comment.

There's constructive criticism (the Dropbox thread) and unconstructive criticism (the Monkey Island thread).

The tone here is controlled by the mods.

I don't see "hey, your job is super easy" as constructive criticism. I see this as an inability to judge your own knowledge and the efforts of others.

But, yes, the tone is super polite.

What does dropbox have to do with "open source communities"

Some open source communities are worse than gamers in some cases.

Dropbox has nothing to do with open source communities, nor is HN an open source community.

How long until they realize they left all this proprietary software open to the public https://github.com/dropbox