I mean, I was responding to a personal comment that directly and personally told me I don't "get" things (and which included what can be reasonably interpreted as a veiled threat by mentioning my departure year from a throwaway account, to make clear that I'm a known quantity in the equation). I'm really trying, here, Dan. We've talked about this over e-mail, but it's getting really tough to contribute here with arbitrary boundaries that are inconsistently enforced, and that a penalty remains on my account for some comment I made in the past that doesn't even matter any more.

I bit my tongue on you detaching this subthread because I've learned that moderation is opaque and largely not welcome to outside opinion, but I agree with Ryan up there and suspect you detached the thread to hide where I went with it. I'm fine with that (honest). Just wish you'd say that.

I've edited, regardless. Is that better?

Yes, that's much better. You took out the personal attack, which was all that was needed.

I don't have the least opinion about Linode or "where [you] went with it". My concern is with civility on Hacker News. That's not an arbitrary line, though I'd never claim we make every call correctly.

The GP seemed to me merely to be saying that the company had changed since you left. That doesn't seem personal, nor a threat, but perhaps there are subtleties I'm missing.