[tomhoward]

Hey there, I’m a longtime Taleb follower (Antifragile was life-changing for me), and I watched him and you and others in your crew commentate on the pandemic and found it highly beneficial for understanding the scenario. I’d consider it a great shame if there were no place for you here.

But this attack on dang misses the mark badly.

pg and sama have always been fully supportive of the way he runs HN (pg hand-picked him to take it over, sama was YC CEO for most of the time since, and they've both repeatedly endorsed him and his HN work publicly [1], including recently in pg's case [2]).

dang’s approach to moderation makes it more conducive to free speech, as, unlike on Twitter, it allows difficult/complex topics to be discussed without being derailed by personal insults.

We don’t need to attack people here; we have the downvote arrow and flag link for when people are being assholes, otherwise we can just focus on presenting persuasive arguments.

[1] https://blog.ycombinator.com/two-hn-announcements/

[2] https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1282055086433284103