This breaks the HN guideline against calling names in arguments. Please don't do that here.

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

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14977201 and marked it off-topic.

Just because you're unaware of the context doesn't make it a straw man. There is a larger ongoing dialogue at HN in which this theme consistently crops up.

And coincidentally, it is also a consistent argument that having a memory of these threads is either unfair or unsportsmanlike.