This is one of the few places I ever engage on the internet, but I think it may be time for HN to be read-only, too.

This didn't seem especially controversial of a comment, and even here there's no end of the rotten attitudes for no good reason

What you call rotten attitudes seemed like fairly thoughtfully doing the research you left out of an opaque and off-topic character determination.

Read-only or read never is looking wiser than it did a few years ago.