Please don't post like this to HN. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.
You may not owe people who you feel are pieces of shit better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.
You may not owe people who you feel are pieces of shit better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.
I think it's important to point out that this person who is lionised by so many was actually an objectively bad person who did reprehensible things.
HN is supposed to be, above all, for curious conversation. No doubt people do reprehensible things, but taking revenge on them for it in internet comments simply isn't curious conversation. It's not a question of whether you're right or not—you may well be completely right—but it's not what this site is for.
It's not about "taking revenge", it's about setting the record straight. As mentioned, I don't think this person should be lionised. And I think that the constant idolisation of this (bad) person does the industry and history a disservice. And I think that there are people who might be curious about the facts of this person's track record if they were alerted to them. By a comment like mine.