I wasn’t even considering banning you, and I agree it’s awful to wish harm on people like that. But this site can only work if we have guidelines and uphold th

I wasn’t even considering banning you, and I agree it’s awful to wish harm on people like that. But this site can only work if we have guidelines and uphold them evenly, and it only makes it harder to help and defend you if you act with contempt towards us and the guidelines. > Had I not been so raw in my response to the poster, garnering flags and downvotes, I doubt that they would even have been addressed at all. This is false, and offensive. We work hard to make this a place where everyone can express their point of view and where people are not vilified for having different points of view. We would absolutely ban someone who demonstrated a pattern of initiating such attacks on you. The right way to deal with such attacks is to flag them and to email us (hn@ycombinator.com) to alert us to the attack, and we will always take action.