[chrisoverzero]

> No, they had the option of having a real conversation in private about what we could do to improve the overall situation.

Abusing others individually in public, but expecting a quiet word on the side about “the overall situation” when it comes to your own behavior. I hope you realize something from this.

[LtWorf]

Do you want to de-escalate or make flame wars?

[chrisoverzero]

I want superiority de-coupled from technical expertise in the minds of the people who have the latter.

Taking his personal struggles out of kernel development and onto Hacker News was the escalation – pointing out his hypocrisy is only trying to get people who agree with him to realize that they’re wrong.