You can't attack another user like this here, so please don't. It's particularly bad when someone shows up to discuss their work and commenters take the opport

You can't attack another user like this here, so please don't. It's particularly bad when someone shows up to discuss their work and commenters take the opportunity to attack them. That's a mob dynamic, and we don't want those here. It also strictly worsens the site because it gives people a disincentive to contribute in precisely the areas they know the most about. I've been trying to explain this for years: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20disincent&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...