HN is extremely vulnerable to certain types of trolling (or certain types of bad posts that may be earnestly meant but are indistinguishable from trolling) and

HN is extremely vulnerable to certain types of trolling (or certain types of bad posts that may be earnestly meant but are indistinguishable from trolling) and these can be coupled with a shitload of passive-aggression before moderators step in (often to censure the person who's finally had enough of that crap). Some of the choices made in the design of the community, like downplaying individual identity so reputations develop less easily (compare with, say, forums that prominently display images or signatures for users that are easy to distinguish at a glance and easier to remember thread-to-thread) and the very decorum-promoting rules themselves make it nearly impossible to do anything about this.