Dan, you're protecting tptacek from criticism which is absolute bullshit. I very fairly criticized his lack of reading comprehension, and the fact he's not an expert in anything except for security. What he accused me of in his comments was worse and protecting him is bullshit.

He came in attacking me twice and you do nothing to his account? He didn't even read my post and then started his rant about the vaccine when I wasn't even talking about the vaccine.

If you're going to threaten with banning, I suggest you do it to everyone fairly, even if he's one of your "favorites". You should be flagging his posts, not mine.

Plus, you flagged my perfectly accurate post on how thalidomide is safe, it's the chiral version of it that causes deformities?

That wasn't a neutral post about thalidomide, it was obviously flamewar fodder, and therefore rightly flagged.

Would you please stop posting like this now? If you keep up this flamewarry/offtopic stuff, we're going to have to ban you. Also, please stop hounding any particular user. That's not in the spirit of the site at all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

There really isn't (on HN, at least) such a thing as 'very fairly criticizing [anyone's] lack of reading comprehension' in those exact terms, it's just a slightly wordier version of 'did you read the article/comment/etc'.

Dan doesn't flag posts, users do.