[tptacek]

Graham allows the dumbest people on the Internet to come onto this site to berate startups he all but begged people to create, but hellbanned a guy who pooped out a better version of HN in his spare time, for nothing. For fuck's sake.

[jcr]

From the date in the blog post, it seems you got things backwards; after getting hellbanned, he created lobsters.

https://jcs.org/notaweblog/2012/06/13/hellbanned_from_hacker...

[zizee]

I honestly can't tell if you are agreeing with what the parent wrote or disagreeing.

I'm leaning toward disagreement.

[zizee]

Not sure what the down vote was for, it was a genuine question. The parents comment IS ambiguous and I would be interested in a clarification.

Sometimes it is difficult to pickup on sarcasm in the written word. This post is not being sarcastic. Neither was my one above.