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The HN commenter literally threatened to sue the developer, even calling the developer a "good target". That sort of combative language is toxicity.

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• striking 10y ago
  The response to his comment was immediate, unanimous, and unequivocal. HN mods responded, the comment was flagged and killed and downvoted to hell. Also, the way it was written may not have been the way he intended to come across. Read dang's comment, as well as his downthread comment. All things considered, HN is definitely not a bad place.
  • mikemcquaid 10y ago
    The mods did well there, I agree, but it was the top-voted comment for a fair while (most of the working day, European time). Perhaps that says something about European vs. American attitudes on such thing, I dunno (I'm European).
  • moosingin3space 10y ago
    > All things considered, HN is definitely not a bad place. While I am very critical of many aspects of HN, I have had some excellent discussion here. I just wish it were more consistently good.
    • striking 10y ago
      I haven't had higher quality discussion with this many people anywhere else on the internet. Sometimes there are not so great comment threads, sometimes people decide to take things too seriously and fail to pick up on humor... but generally I think this is a great place.