...Let's all of us who consider ourselves human beings and who want the internet to continue as a forum for free and frank debate get together and decide on a f

...Let's all of us who consider ourselves human beings and who want the internet to continue as a forum for free and frank debate get together and decide on a few rules of engagement... This, I believe, is what HN offers me today. Cheers for that! Sometimes opposing viewpoints get downmodded to oblivion, but as I see from recent discussions, people have already started taking notice of this phenomenon [for e.g. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=446176 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=446176] and have taken it upon themselves to fix it..