I respect Dave but he has to realize, experienced as he is at blogging, that...this is the Internet, where no one knows you're a dog...or even an Internet pioneer. And he's done his fair share of rush-to-judgment posting...my first knowledge of him was during the whole Suggested Users List spat, in which he accused organizations, such as the NYT, of participating in payola: http://scripting.com/stories/2009/03/12/whyItsTimeToBreakOut...

The Internet is no different or less immune to abusive discussion than every other form of human communication...but at least it's one in which it's possible for any participant, big or small, to improve the discussion, and so keeping scripting.com (assuming that he considers his writing there to be overall helpful) off of HN would be a disservice.