agreed the "meds are working" was a bad thing. but the rest of his comment was gold, was signal. I applaud you for trying to uphold a high S/N ratio on HN recently, but through the vast majority of HN experience a reader has had to become used to a vast sea of asshole-ish or humblebrag comments, in order to keep coming back. it's become an HN trademark. whereas this particular comment truly delivers some signal, despite this one flaw.
A comment with an uncivil slight is not a civil comment. Uncivil slights need to be edited out, full stop.
Yes, the rest of the comment was fine, which is why we left it unkilled, despite the tedious tangent it provoked.
You are correct and reasonable. Thank you for your follow-up response.
I do think that HN's biggest problem is a pervasive and long-standing culture of "asshole" behavior in comments, so anything you and the HN team can do to fight back against it, to set a better example, is gold.
Not carefully enough. "Or the meds are working" was a nasty cheap shot and more than enough reason to flag your comment.
I've had to ask you repeatedly to stop posting uncivil comments to Hacker News. Perhaps your experience moderating huge forums has blinded you to the differences between those and this one, but please follow the rules here.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html