[dang]

Telling someone "you are part of the problem" is a kind of personal attack. That counts as uncivil. I don't think I misread you, because phrases like "these people" and "need to be called out" are also markers of incivility.

Regardless of how right you are, how wrong someone else is, and how big of a problem the industry has, all commenters on HN need to follow the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

[kimdouglasmason]

Phrases like "need to be called out" are not markers of incivility at all. You just made that up with no basis whatsoever.

Looks like the HN mods are also part of the problem. Please hellban me, and enjoy your echo chamber.

[dang]

My basis is long experience trying to cajole this forum into not degenerating completely. "Need to be called out" is the kind of thing users say to justify hurling invective at one another, and we ask everybody not to do that on HN.

Users frequently express views similar to yours without violating the site guidelines, so I don't think the moderation question has anything to do with subject matter.