That comment was breaking the site guidelines, quite badly in fact. We moderate comments like that the same way regardless of who or what they're about.
> there are literally 10-50 of these per day in arbitrary threads
If you can find cases of this where moderators didn't respond, I'd like to see links. The likeliest explanation is simply that we didn't see it. We don't come close to seeing everything that gets posted here, so we depend on users, via flagging (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html) or by emailing hn@ycombinator.com.
> What is HN running on again?
I suppose I have to answer this or someone will concoct a sinister reason why I didn't. HN doesn't run on Cloudflare.
You are overreacting and protecting your preferred people. What is HN running on again?
If this is a personal attack, there are literally 10-50 of these per day in arbitrary threads.
That comment was breaking the site guidelines, quite badly in fact. We moderate comments like that the same way regardless of who or what they're about.
> there are literally 10-50 of these per day in arbitrary threads
If you can find cases of this where moderators didn't respond, I'd like to see links. The likeliest explanation is simply that we didn't see it. We don't come close to seeing everything that gets posted here, so we depend on users, via flagging (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html) or by emailing hn@ycombinator.com.
> What is HN running on again?
I suppose I have to answer this or someone will concoct a sinister reason why I didn't. HN doesn't run on Cloudflare.