[reitanqild]

> on the theory that someone is flame warring in the comments.

... one mans flamewar seems to be another mans: it takes a few tries to explain this.

I'm find HN is very civilized. On other forums I see people talking about nuking entire counties, calling each other names etc all while posting under a full, real life names.

The thing that bugs me at HN (except interesting content disappearing like this post describes) is anonymous downvotes, - and mostly not because they hit me (usually they don't do : ) but because so often they are so obviously a result of political correctness and groupthink that it hurts.