> If you didn't want to stoke internet drama, the thing to do would have been not to submit it to HN in the first place One of the most important phenomena in

> If you didn't want to stoke internet drama, the thing to do would have been not to submit it to HN in the first place One of the most important phenomena in tech, especially at the large-scale system (technical) & open source (social) levels, is emergent behavior: your complex system will likely react in ways you'd never expect. The HN guidelines keep this in mind and are designed to inspire curiosity and humility. However, the quoted moderator narrative appears to pin the blame on the OP; there's a non-zero affect of "you should have know better." Should he? A ton of posts like these get squashed or ignored, some much less thoughtful ones get celebrated, and the attitude towards big companies like Facebook or Google has changed over the years. COVID has additionally made people behave in unexpected ways. It's really hard to predict the reaction of the crowd these days. I have been deeply disappointed with the HN moderation in the past few months. At the very least, a "you should have known better" message should be delivered in private and not posted as conspicuously as this one.