[dang]

Would you please not fulminate on HN? No one's saying you owe billionaire fraudster wunderkinds better, but you owe this community better if you're posting here, regardless of how strongly you feel.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.

[somenewaccount1]

Oh God. Thanks for the flag. I was not fulminating though, I was pointing out factual matter that no one else wants to say outright: SBF is, was, and forever shall be a thief.

35 others upvoted my comment, it appears the community liked it just fine.

I owe you nothing. You owe me an apologie.

[dang]

It was fulminating in the sense that the HN guidelines mean the word: intense, low-information venting. Far from "no one else wanting to say it", it was interchangeable with hundreds if not thousands of similar comments that have been posted so far. That's a clear sign that there's nothing new in such a post, therefore nothing to learn from it, and therefore that it is not related to intellectual curiosity, which is what we're optimizing for here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor....

I'm not saying your feelings aren't justified - just that that sort of comment is obviously against the mandate of this site.

As for upvotes, fulminating and other indignant comments routinely get upvoted—this is a weakness of the voting system, and is why HN is regulated not just by upvotes but also by flags, various software mechanisms, and moderation. Past explanations about this: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so....

Certainly you don't owe me anything—but every commenter here owes some things to the community, and this is one.