[dang]

Please keep flamewar provocation out of your comments here. Your post contained some interesting stuff and also some hellish flamebait, and naturally the hellish flamebait dominated the thread.

That is entirely predictable internet dynamics, which is why the site guidelines explicitly ask everyone to avoid it here. Please don't do it again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[atdrummond]

Is there a middle ground here, where you could work with posters to remove the flame bait rather than the content being pushed to the bottom and out of sight? Most of OP is very interesting and has content worth exploring.