We've been having this argument for several years and there is more trolling than ever. In past email conversation i've given you examples of people organizing on 8chan to target threads here. You always end up saying you need more convincing examples. Fine, if you want to wallow in toxicity at source go look at kiwifarms.net or /tech/ forums on imageboards for examples of both targeting HN stories directly and general discussions of waging cultural warfare in the social space around technology.
I think your fire analogy is off. An occasional conflagration in a highly-populated city doesn't do anything to promote the quality of the environment. Quite the opposite.
Since I made an explicit analogy to a forest, rewriting it to be about something else kind of makes my point for me.
> In past email conversation i've given you examples of people organizing on 8chan to target threads here
When? I don't remember that, and I just searched the email archive and didn't find it. I found a mention of 8chan, but not with examples, and certainly not with links to people organizing to target threads here—which is hardly something we would be disagreeing about. Obviously that's abusive.
Hold on a second. You said you emailed me examples. I ask when, because none of your emails contained anything like that, and your response is "Do you really need to be spoon fed?" That doesn't seem right.
I can't find anything about HN at your third link. The others don't seem to contain much, but I'll take another look tomorrow.
(p.s. HN's software autokilled your comment for what I hope are obvious reasons.)
I think your fire analogy is off. An occasional conflagration in a highly-populated city doesn't do anything to promote the quality of the environment. Quite the opposite.
Since I made an explicit analogy to a forest, rewriting it to be about something else kind of makes my point for me.