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This type of moderation is always a response to the subthread (i.e. root comment plus all descendants), not the root comment alone.

>>dang+(OP)
Thanks for explaining; that makes sense, it did descend into a bit of a culture war and become detached from the point.

>>PostOn+sk
Thanks for getting it! It's a bit of a subtle point.

Actually it took us years to begin thinking this way but once we figured it out as a principle it changed a ton about how we moderate HN threads.

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