[cypherpunks2]

In case it's not obvious, someone logged into the cypherpunks account, edited the above comment, and changed the password.

cypherpunks is a generic account shared by many people on many websites. The username and password is cypherpunks/cypherpunks where allowed, and cypherpunks/cypherpunks1 where the username and password must be different. E-mail is usually [e-mail]. It allows you to use websites while maintaining a semblance of anonymity.

This is now broken on HN. redditors rise to new heights in their debating ability.

I'm not going to repost all comments from the discussion, but the original comment was along the lines of:

I read reddit, but I would never buy a gold account. The site has too much hate speech, and it is hard to support that financially. Between the misogyny and the atheist anti-Christian bigotry, it's pretty bad. You don't have to be either a woman or a theist to see that's wrong.

The question of how to address this issue while maintaining free speech is a more complex one. The reddit founders, however, have shown no interest in finding ways to improve site quality from this perspective, and indeed, appear to support the bigotry.