Yeah, marcan said so too,on his blog. There's only one place worse on the Internet, according to him... HN.

I'm quite familiar with both, and Phoronix is much worse. Imagine the worst of flagged/downvoted HN comments, and even worse than that, but instead of being flagged/downvoted, they're just one more comment, which begets replies and further trolling, and gets treated as a fixture. "Oh, there's X again."