There have been a number of HN threads that have become quite, er, hostile or toxic in the past. The most recent example of this would the comment thread for th

There have been a number of HN threads that have become quite, er, hostile or toxic in the past. The most recent example of this would the comment thread for this article: "Richard M. Stallman resigns" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20990583 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20990583)