This feels like being on some sort of Bizzaro Internet. In the past people on the Internet have told me to kill myself or have physically threatened me and nobo

This feels like being on some sort of Bizzaro Internet. In the past people on the Internet have told me to kill myself or have physically threatened me and nobody else in the IRC channel bat a fucking eyelid. Potshots like this on the Internet are so common it is practically table stakes. Do I like it like this? No. Do I think it should be better? Yeah, in a better world. But no amount of blogging on my part would ever garner this level of sympathy. I'm confused as to why HN is collectively so concerned about this person (enough to have 245 comments on a ten year old repost) when the same or worse is happening every day. Is it the names involved?