It's not the real regulars who wring their hands over this-- more the users who've been here 5 months or so. It seems to be a phase people go through.

Thank you. Since 5 months will come up soon for me, I'll try not to go through it too :-D

Those that complain and mean it leave. Those that complain and don't will have stopped complaining about it.

The people who stick around aren't so much the ones who didn't mean it when they said, after a bad day, that HN was going to the dogs. I think more often they simply noticed that the next day everything was fine again.