The future of HN
alxross: Agreed about there being more aggressive comments, etc. One possibility would be to move to another site and not lock it down. Moving to another site may be enough of a switching  cost and I think there are many like myself who are not YC-funded but enjoy the original spirit of this site..."It's also counter to the spirit of the net to police too aggressively."
I also agree that it's against the original spirit of the net, but at some point in scale it becomes a requirement. I worked on a community site for a major TV presence which had gone awry. There were millions of community members and, unfortunately, some would be posting death threats about others or about celebs.I had hoped that there were "self-regulating" solutions but we had to ban the hell out of people. Not that HN is anywhere near that level of ugliness... :)