<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9378899>

I'm pretty confident in my understanding of HN's guidelines and dang's views on them. He's the site moderator (I am not). Note that most of HN's actual moderation is, however, by ordinary members.

I'm not going to argue the point. I strongly encourage you to read through dang's comments and admonitions on this point, which makes clear just what constitutes a swipe:

<https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...>

And ... you've been admonished before on this specific point, more than once: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39696275> <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37925316> <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37906769>