You broke the site guidelines badly with this and it set off a flamewar, which is just what we're trying to avoid on this site. I realize it wasn't arson but that was major negligence.

Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here. They ask you not to post flamebait and specifically not to post insinuations of organized manipulation/astroturfing, unless you have evidence, in which case you should be emailing [email protected] so we can look into it. Other people having different views about nuclear power doesn't count as evidence of anything, other than that the topic is controversial, which we all know.

I wrote a whole thing about this yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26414518 - it's not about nuclear, but you can swap in any topic that people feel strongly about. The mechanism is exactly the same.