[dang]

Please don't cross into personal attack. It destroys what this site is for, and you can always make your substantive points without it.

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

[croes]

Didn‘t know that pointing out a lack of accountability is seen as personal attack.

Who wants the fame must also take the blame.

Especially if they create a dangerous tool.

[dang]

We don't want mobs on HN. There was very clearly a mob dynamic happening in the replies.

Edit: there was another case of this recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47576107

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47576084

The point is that mob dynamics do more damage to the community than the threads add value, and protecting the community has to be the high-order bit.