I certainly didn't mean to insult you! It's just that this is a classic flamewar topic that has been argued to death many times, and your comments in this thread were feeding the flamewar more than anyone else's I saw, both in quantity, and in quality—specifically, pushing increasingly toward hostility.

Hostility is the opposite direction to the curious conversation we want here. Sam, YC, et. al., have nothing to do with this—it's just bog-standard HN moderation. If you don't believe me, here are 5,000 examples: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....