That's because the community in the end rejected it overwhelmingly, as anyone who reads the comments in this thread will understand. Admins did nothing, other than refrain from intervening.
Normally a post of this sort would never stay on HN's front page. In the end it spent 4 hours on the front page. That's because we suspended our usual quality control, as I explained at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40100680.
dredmorbius's sibling comment already made the point, but I wanted to add more in the hope that no one ends up with the wrong idea.
dang|1 year ago
Normally a post of this sort would never stay on HN's front page. In the end it spent 4 hours on the front page. That's because we suspended our usual quality control, as I explained at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40100680.
dredmorbius's sibling comment already made the point, but I wanted to add more in the hope that no one ends up with the wrong idea.
dredmorbius|1 year ago
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