I sensed you might not, so I wanted to thank you for the attempt. You have a good heart, and your comment really shows it. For what it’s worth, HN has a long h

I sensed you might not, so I wanted to thank you for the attempt. You have a good heart, and your comment really shows it. For what it’s worth, HN has a long history of this kind of thing. It’s probably more frequent now because HN has grown several orders of magnitude in a relatively short time. (You can get a feel for this by graphing item IDs vs time. I haven’t done it, but I bet it’s a steep J curve.) Totally agreed about how surprising it is that anyone can break. The other aspect is, they’re not broken — there’s a chance they’ll take your advice and turn their life around. It’s a terrible illness that people can recover from. Like you, I hope he does, especially for his family’s sake. Take care; have a great weekend.