Two things can be true: (1) many things are evil and terrible; (2) HN commenters need to follow the rules. Imagine if the rules were suspended whenever the top

Two things can be true: (1) many things are evil and terrible; (2) HN commenters need to follow the rules. Imagine if the rules were suspended whenever the topic is evil/terrible or people feel it is. That would amount to having no rules at all. In fact, the opposite is the case: "Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html