This seems to run counter to reality. I saw critiques and criticism from regular commenters, but no "vicious abuse", outside of what appeared to be new/anonymou

This seems to run counter to reality. I saw critiques and criticism from regular commenters, but no "vicious abuse", outside of what appeared to be new/anonymous accounts. The HN threads themselves were linked to from elsewhere and drew in a lot of anonymous/new commenters. [edit] Also, this article is written by Valerie Aurora, the same person responsible for the censorship disaster at Security BSides: http://violetblue.tumblr.com/post/44107008572/what-happened-with-my-security-bsides-talk http://violetblue.tumblr.com/post/44107008572/what-happened-... Hardly an unbiased source. Perhaps its time to stop propagating the noise from this particular echo chamber.