Just as a note that when the parent comment was posted, the comment section looked very different. It was almost all vitriol. It was genuinely discouraging and

Just as a note that when the parent comment was posted, the comment section looked very different. It was almost all vitriol. It was genuinely discouraging and disheartening to read, and ugly was the correct adjective. I really resonated seeing this comment, and was pleased to then see it and similar comments basically within minutes jump to the very top. Ie suggesting that others resonated with it as well. The comments being made now are significantly lower temperature, and I think this comment is partly responsible for that de-escalation. Although I do agree that absent that context it comes off as inflammatory--it's a shame that there's no way to see that context in online comment threads like HN!