There are plenty of authors and writers who could discuss political controversies as intellectually profound learning examples, etc. That is a norm in academia, for example. It reflects more on online forums and basic limitations of forum structure and demographics, rather than anything intrinsic about a given topic.

I totally agree. There's a long and superb tradition of that. But the Brownian motion of a large internet forum can't produce it.

I highly doubt you hold this degree of standard to any other person who was caught in similar obvious predicament.

Saying "oh this forum doesn't like him therefor we don't need to see this" is just bizarre, since then people ought to rejoice at the self proclaimed nerd and tech wiz showing a different color then stated.

A story about Musk being unable to explain X/Twitter's stack and immediatly attacking the person asking him about it has been not only flagged but completely removed.

Source: https://old.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/1i53nzv/elo...

Flagged + deleted HN story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42775528

I hate Musk, and he doesn't seem to have a clue about the Twitter stack.

But in this link that you shared, those who ask the questions are being disrespectful first. From my point of view, this recording has no value at all.

That post wasn't deleted. If you turn 'showdead' on in your profile, you'll see it. (This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.)

We never delete a post outright except when the author asks us to (and not necessarily then, either, for example if it got replies).