"It's amazing watching the python web development community develop, nurture and encourage so much mindless trolling."
Where are you seeing this? There are a fair number of Django and Python posts on HN and this is the first I've read that I can remember any such trolling.
Indeed, but even here it has been increasing. This made it to #2 within a half hour of posting. Even watching this thread you can see people driving through down modding even mdasen's post. Another recently popular blatant nonsensical anti-rails/pro-django troll that comes to mind was the "Magic Sucks, Django Rocks!" submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=596833
Where are you seeing this? There are a fair number of Django and Python posts on HN and this is the first I've read that I can remember any such trolling.