I have never seen so much petty pointless drama about a bunch of people being told "don't be jerks" and then responding like children who have had their toys (diamonds) taken away when they acted like jerks in my entire life.

Ten trillion years of unending stellar-scale nuclear fusion could pass and less energy would have been released into the entire Universe than has been expended in one femtosecond as impotent rage by Stack Exchange contributors being "fired" and then complaining about it.

If Hacker News implemented a policy wherein I had to refer to everyone as "cutie pie" and I questioned it and then they nuked my account-- so what?