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Headsup to anyone who wants to reply:

While the black bar is not a "banned topic" or anything, bringing it up tends to produce heated disagreements, and at the worst possible time too (since the conversation ends up in the thread of someone who's no longer with us).

Devolving into meta flamewars is quite disrespectful, and creates extra work for the moderators as as well.

I suggested opening a dedicated thread the last time it was brought up, and that's here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14119519

Here's the last time the black bar was discussed in a thread it was used. You'll need showdead turned on to see all the offtopic discussion. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14118290