Please avoid swipes on HN, even if others have posted hostile comments. Flag the comment instead, and if you like, email us so we can take action.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Care to be more specific with the examples from history you mean, with you being so smart and all?

@dang, since when it's allowed on HN to insult users without getting flagged?

Tagging doesn't do anything on HN.

The comment is flagged and killed and I'm now posting them a warning, but you should email us, not tag. You should also avoid swipes like "The mental gymnastics i read on HN is mind boggling stupid", which was obviously an attack on the parent commenter and the broader community, if you want to demonstrate that you care about the guidelines.