You can have any problematic comments anonymised or removed by emailing the hn@yc address. By default, it's an important part of HN that comments stay up, unle

You can have any problematic comments anonymised or removed by emailing the hn@yc address. By default, it's an important part of HN that comments stay up, unless they will cause problems for the poster. PG explained why, many years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6813226 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6813226