Amongst numerous others that have nothing to do with personal attacks, one of the guidelines is: > Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological ba

Amongst numerous others that have nothing to do with personal attacks, one of the guidelines is: > Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity. Baseless, unsubstantiated, and repeated complaints about election fraud could easily be argued to fall afoul of this guideline and I would not be personally surprised to find [dead] comments here along such lines.