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Other people posting bad things doesn't make it ok to break the guidelines and certainly not to escalate into personal attack, which you did. If you feel like other comments didn't get moderation replies and should have, we're always open to looking at specific links. If you flag one, we'll probably see it—but if you email us at [e-mail], we'll definitely see it.

It's hard to tell from what you wrote here which specific other comments you're referring to. I tried, but got confused.

If you see a bad comment that didn't get moderated, the likeliest explanation is that we didn't see it. We don't come close to reading everything that gets posted to HN—there's far too much—and we usually read the threads in more of a random-access than a linear way, so a post that seems glaringly obvious to some readers may just have escaped our attention.

You've posted a lot of good comments here! I just want to acknowledge that. You have a nice way of finding something interesting in what other people have posted and replying with something interesting of your own. That's the most desirable quality in HN threads, the idea of which is to be good and fresh conversation. It's nice and surprisingly rare in this sort of exchange to look back through a user's comment history and see that.