Comment by dang

Please keep flamewars and online rage off Hacker News. We all know what the callout/shaming culture has wrought on the internet, and the idea of this place is to try to be different. You've perpetuated it in this thread as much as the other person whom you've scornfully criticized for it. That's the way these things usually go.

As for 'purge', if you use a politically charged word like that next to a rage word like 'fuckers', the internet dynamics are predictable. Therefore, the fault for the flamewar about communism and genocide the thread ended up in lies largely with your comment. We can argue in general about words and contexts (and sure, you're not wrong), but the point is irrelevant because the current context has such well-known properties, like dynamite and dry forests.