You've burned me out of this community

This is a rant, yes. And I'm writing it from a new account as I find HN intimidating enough as to feel forced to hide myself. I am not a native speaker, but I'm quite confident I'll manage to make my point clear. I don't think I should have started by justifying myself on these accounts, but now that I've lost most of my faith and confidence in HN, I fear my point will be lost if I don't and the only debate this will generate is "why are you hiding behind a new account?", "this guy is just sore and ranting" and the several linguistic mistakes I'll commit.

I am a hacker, I believe: I program since I can remember, I began writing simple games when I was around 8. I now program educational software for a living, I love teaching and giving lectures. When I get home, I program some more. I'm quite sure I fit the Hacker prototype, so I always thought HN could be my community.

I lurked HN for a very long time before creating my account, about 3.5 years ago. I did so because I wanted to submit my weekend project and get honest opinions. It was a satirical site built with on a pretty esoteric tech stack. It casually talked about why I thought web development was all wrong, which is something I strongly feel, but the point was the way it was built. I expected debate and sane criticism, but I got downvoted to the bone instead. Nobody even cared to check what technologies were behind the site.

I gave up satire, but still every time I gave my serious opinion on something related to my idea of web development being broken, I got nasty remarks, downvotes, accusations of not being literate enough in the subject and, behold, satirical comments. So I got it. You can't joke on HN. You can't touch The Web either. I thought hackers were fun and questioned everything, but whatever.

My most upvoted post was an experiment. I took a random article from a popular science magazine, random in content, but geographically related to those populating HN (SF and around). I waited until the best time to submit and, voila, the upvotes started flowing. I hadn't even read the article, it wasn't the least interesting to me. It was not at all hacker material, just a scrub of popular science.

I once asked why a project I coded got bumped to the first page when posted by someone with big karma, while when I Show HN'd it, it got basically pushed out of "new" with one or two upvotes and no comments. Because of this innocent question I again got so many downvotes and smart-ass remarks as to how I didn't understand how karma worked and how submission time was crucial I decided this was definitely not my community.

Hackers build stuff, share opinions and debate. You guys bash stuff and won't take any opinion that criticizes the almighty web or the way HN works.

Let me put it this way: in HN there are way too many managers and wanna-be-riches, and way too few hackers. Because making money is never what drives a hacker. The fun of exploring, learning, debating and building is what powers the hacker spirit.

Let the angry comments commence, I'm out of here.