To mitigate the harm you've already caused, you should put the service into a read-only mode and contact Archive Team about handing off the database. You should do this today, before you get hit by a bus.
Even if you're right, beating people with a stick will neither improve their behavior nor the quality of conversation for anybody else. The endgame of this is a ghost town inhabited by a few nasty diehards, abandoned by users one would actually want to have a conversation with. That seems to be the default fate of internet forums but the goal of this one has always been to stave it off a little longer [2].
[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&type=comment&dateRange=a...
[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
Is link rot such a damaging phenomenon that it warrants attacking hobbyists and their not-for-profit public service?
Will you help financially compensate their time setting up these fail-safes?
And I care about climate change, even after my death.