[dang]

This sort of incivility is not allowed here. Please comment civilly and substantively, or not at all.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12888924 and marked it off-topic.

[mst]

And yet his being told to go fuck himself downthread was left uncommented upon.

[dang]

You don't really think you're facing anti-perl-6 moderation bias, do you? I assure you I'm just bereft of my laptop and stuck in an airplane with a very small phone.

Edit: ok, I've now found that comment (which you're right was worse) and banned the offending account.

[mst]

Lolno. Just pointing out that that post is likely what got him riled up and thereby resulting in his mistake. I've moderated lots of stuff for years, my baseline expectation is always "moderator mistake" rather than "bias". Just the mote/beam level of this particular case seemed sufficient to be worth commenting on.

Then once I'd posted that, I downvoted zoffix myself for being unconstructive and went and tracked him down on IRC (we've known each other for years) and pointed out that even if you're right, accusing somebody of being intentionally obstructive is pretty much never constructive.

[ehdonhon]

Your objection would bear more credibility if you also raised equal objection to even stronger language used in anti-Perl posts on this thread.

[dang]

We try our best to be even-handed, of course. But it's impossible to see all the comments, so there's inevitably some irregularity.

Any time people notice comments breaking HN's rules that we haven't replied to, they're welcome to email us at [e-mail].