Even if you're justifiably steaming about something, please wait to cool down before posting here.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26889743.
The way I understand it is that unnecessarily angry or confrontational posts tend to lower the overall tone. They are cathartic/fun to write, fast to write, and tend to get wide overall agreement/votes. So if they are allowed then most of the discussion on a topic gets pushed down beneath that sort of post.
Hence why we are asked to refrain, to permit more room for focused and substantive discussion.
Edit: dang is a good person and I don't understand how he's taking sides here with people sending out malware (because that's what this sums up to). I understand I came on a little hot, but that was unexpected.
After reviewing the thread I don't see any of what you are asking, here, upstream. I don't seem dang coming out on the same side as people sending out malware, and I don't really see that question present. I wish I had something more concrete to say, but I think your take here (and only here) is wrong and that you might have just entered this one on the wrong foot?
It's common when we post a moderation reply for people to assume that the mods are disagreeing with them [1], when we're just asking them to follow the site guidelines. Those two things are orthogonal, but they fuse under temperature: that is, when one is feeling hot about something, it's hard to separate them. They come unstuck as things cool down.
(I don't mean to pick on you personally. This kind of reaction happens in everyone, certainly including me.)
[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
I did a bit of walking away, had some water and feel a little better. It's sometimes difficult to separate things from being personal. Sorry, this whole thread has my BP going a little hot because of some things like this I've had to deal with.
It's not you, I probably went a little far there with "fuck these people".