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Are you really implying that people are refraining from commenting out of fear they're being monitored?

Personally I am not commenting because I don't know much about the issue at hand.

the same really. I don't think anyone will know for sure. The poor guy might just have not caught the issues back then. Or maybe it was malicious and still is.

It's hard to say. In these cases, the wisest option is "innocent until proved guilty". False positives are worse than false negatives.

BURN HIM. HE'S A WITCH.

Does he float?

That's probably more attributable to knowledge of HN's algorithms basing article ranking on the upvote/comment ratio than on any sort of "chilling effect".

I'm scared to participate this witchhunt / blacklist! Obama's America!