[Baal]

Well, it seems you consider a “personal attack” any comment directed to another person, even if it is meaningful for the discussion and in-context. Your own guidelines ask for maintaining an identity (“On HN, users should have an identity that others can relate to.”); yet you don’t want any comments questioning anyone.

As for the rest: I don’t see how asking for proof can be considered “bullying”.

Please review the definition of bullying, because you are trivializing it and therefore hurting actual victims of bullying.

Thank you on behalf of them.

Finally, since it seems HN are in the business of deleting fair comments, I will leave the site and do my best warn others of what is happening here.

Good luck.