A User's First Post?
ryanwaggoner: Yes, posting and commenting here is intimidating at first.  The combination of very smart people + strong opinions + all the web rockstars who hang out here gives one pause when commenting.  I first wandered over to HN about six months ago from Reddit (and Digg, sad to say).  For the first few weeks, the ratio of comments I wrote to comments I posted was about 2:1, because I was afraid of putting my foot in my mouth.  Perhaps that's just me, though.