I flagged it (as did many readers). I also flag articles about anyone else insulting someone on Twitter, so it's not due to partisanship. I flag them because no

I flagged it (as did many readers). I also flag articles about anyone else insulting someone on Twitter, so it's not due to partisanship. I flag them because nothing interesting comes of discussing them. HN is meant for discussing articles that can spawn interesting conversations (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). Interestingness is hard to define exactly, but at least it requires ideas or points of view that typical readers hadn't considered before. The discussion linked above fails on that count. I empathize with the need for outrage. We all have it. But on a discussion site, outrage tends to take over and crowd out the interesting discussions, so HN is designed to put the wet blanket on outrage fests. Other sites like http://reddit.com/r/elonmusk http://reddit.com/r/elonmusk allow them. If you use both sites judiciously, you can have the best of both worlds -- a place to vent and a place to think.