(This is a stub reply so I can collapse the various comments responding to this, so as not to distract too much from the topic at hand.)
Hopefully it will be infrequently necessary. But I suspect that we're living in "interesting times".
You didn't think that you'd be able to avoid this in the future, now did you? You've established a precedent (at least for huge, fast moving (disruptive) events) :)
have you considered open-sourcing parts of HN so the community could create features to automate menial tasks like this?
this could free up your valuable time for other things.
Would it be too complicated, or do we lack the tooling to visualize it properly? :). Graphs are good.
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