Looking back it shines an interesting light on the motivations. Everything was filtered using a very specific politically motivated lens and lacked a lot of imp

Looking back it shines an interesting light on the motivations. Everything was filtered using a very specific politically motivated lens and lacked a lot of important context. You could steal all the emails of any HN user and cherry pick a few dozen to make them look like a monster, where I believe on the whole most users of this site are good people.