There are ways to ask questions about restrictive clauses in licences that don't cause shitty threads, which is something that almost always happens when US politicians are named.

[flagged] on a post means users flagged it.

If you can point to a large internet community where people being jerks to each other results in substantive discourse, I'd love to see it.

However, please don't routinely create many throwaway accounts here. We ban those. HN is a community. Anonymity is fine, but users should have some continuous identity that other users can relate to. Otherwise we might as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be an entirely different site.