To be fair to Paul and the moderators, the title of this submission used to be:

Goodbye, HACKER NEWS!!!! I'm going back to Reddit.

I don't think this site was meant for everybody to post whatever they want. There should be respect for other people's resources; while Reddit and Digg want as many users as possible, there is no such leverage here.

I think the mistake is that users start thinking they can do whatever they want just because a social site is free.