There were a number of skeptical commenters that raised various issues at the time. I definitely came away from reading that comment thread skeptical that the i

There were a number of skeptical commenters that raised various issues at the time. I definitely came away from reading that comment thread skeptical that the issue had happened exactly as described. We eventually had https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=CydeWeys https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=CydeWeys come in a confirm that the domain had always been premium. I'd say that HN did a pretty good job of pushing back on the outrage machine and correcting the misinformation. We even get a follow up article clarifying things. What we can do better is to continue to downvote and constructively respond to comments that jump the gun and use the current topic to push outrage over broader unrelated issues. As we train and remind each other to read more carefully and critically, the quality of HN comments will match that effort. Edit: If I had a personal hot take, it would be that twitter threads in general seem to prompt this type of outrage bandwagon behavior more than other mediums and perhaps should face ranking penalties for appearing on the front page. (But I'm biased here because I simply hate reading them.)