Considering the amount of censorship ("snark", "acerbic overstatement", "personal rudeness", and repeated threats "we will ban your account"), I am not at all convinced I want to keep posting here: "Hacker News" seems to have degraded into a club where people who stroke each others' egos get praised and rewarded, and where any criticism is labeled and severly reprimanded, even when it is warranted. I also do not appreciate being dictated in which style I am to express myself. Lastly, the cultural bias criteria for what consititutes "personal rudeness" is, from my point of view, insensitive in the extreme.