"Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
On this site, let's try to avoid the online shaming culture. One of its properties is to link everything anybody ever said or did to the worst thing about them. If all we do is rush along the edges of that directed graph, discussion soon implodes into a high-activation-low-information state. That may be the game on much of the internet, but it's obviously not consistent with curious conversation, which is the mandate of this site, so please let's play a different game here.
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=online%20shaming%20by%3Adang&s...
(We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25279168 and marked it off topic.)