That comment was directly at odds with HN's guidelines: "Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."

That comment was directly at odds with HN's guidelines: "Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading." And when Colin Percival, a widely respected member of community quoted exactly that excerpt, that person got combative and doubled down, throwing baseless accusations of some kind of MRA conspiracy. Frankly, I am disturbed by a display of such callousness, not giving people the benefit of the doubt.