Well I’d be interested to know what part of the Hacker News guidelines this comment I made has violated and why you have deemed the ensuing discussion uninteresting and adding nothing to the discussion.
Thank you. It’s really not a nice feeling to be silenced, especially when it feels completely unjustified. Makes you question reality itself. I hope the powers that be unflag it.
To clarify my earlier point as I now realize I sounded more hostile than I intended to. Sometimes, people will flag for aesthetic reasons even if the comment doesn't technically deserve it. They might be tired of negativity, and click the flag button in a moment of weakness just for the experience of being excited about things again. There also is a separate phenomenon of dead or removed comments usually meriting it, even taking into account trigger-happy moderation.
In this case, your comment spawned helpful discussion so I'll happily vouch for it if it is ever killed.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33297520
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html