Please don't take threads into this extremely repetitive territory. It breaks the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

One reason we have such a guideline is that usually the vote totals don't stay the way they were. Then we end up with a tedious subthread which is garbage in the additional sense that it's no longer connected to the thing it was referring to.

Because Hackernews users are fond of shooting the messenger. If someone posts a truth that Hackernews wishes were not true, they'll be downmodded to oblivion.

Sometimes it's because HN is like a bunch of angry bees, and sometimes it's because your comment sucks.