I was recently reminded just how unusual this place (HN) is - I think there was a common thread between HN and Reddit, and so I followed the link from HN and read a fairly tame comment that drew quite shocking personal vitriol, and there was no community correction, no obvious moderator action. I closed the tab.

The weather "out there" is pretty horrible. It's much nicer here by the warm fire.

And we should thank pg, dang and the many other moderators and commenters for keeping that fire going. communities at scale is hard.