Post #1362123

Dan Gackle [threatens to quit HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47728106) over their reluctance to condemn an act of violence towards Sam Altman: > I don't think I've ever seen a thread this bad on Hacker News. The number of commenters justifying violence, or saying they "don't condone violence" and then doing exactly that, is sickening and makes me want to find something else to do with my life—something as far away from this as I can get. I feel ashamed of this community. Gackle's ashamed of people not wanting to protect Altman. Curiously, he doesn't seem ashamed of openly allowing people with nicknames ending in "88" to post antisemitism, nor of allowing multiple crusty conservatives like John Nagle and Walter Bright to post endorsements of violence against the homeless and queer, nor of allowing posters like `rayiner` to port entirely foreign flavors of racism like the Indian caste system into their melting pot of bigotry. [This subthread](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47728227) takes him to task for it: > Frankly people calling out a post from a billionaire is a good thing. You would have to be terminally detached from reality to not see how all these festering issues - wealth inequality, injustice, cost of living, future employment etc etc - are starting to come to a head which would cause people to feel something - frustrated, angry, wrathful. The rest of that subthread involves Dan demonstrating that he is, in fact, terminally detached from reality. Anyway, I fully endorse Gackle fucking off and buying a farm. While he's at it, he should consider following the advice of [this reply](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47730567): > Maybe it's time to pack it in? I don't just mean you, I mean that maybe this site has kinda run its course.