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by dang 3875 days ago
Nobody found them inflammatory when they sat in the public HN source code for years, but once they appeared in an accidental screenshot, they became outrageous!

We're happy to answer good-faith questions about HN moderation, but this seems like trying to stir up drama.

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The verbiage of 'poisoning the well' is a well understood figure of speech.