I'd actually been testing that theory for many months, and was all set to declare it victory when Groupon happened.

I was sure that the level of negativity on the company leading up to the IPO would pretty much assure it's success.

But I think folks have been proven to be mostly right about that (if not a little hyperbolically fatalistic).

The "Groupon is a giant Ponzi scheme" conventional wisdom slingers of HN haven't been proven right about anything.

Facetious and I'm sure you'll get all sorts of downvotes, but the biases of commentary groups is worth knowing.