Try arguing with them about an SLA violation they had with their cloud infrastructure. The game is setup where they can chisel and have these guffaw and aw garsh moments but every adword and every billable second on their cloud will get paid hell or high water.
If I'm being completely fair, how often does HN as a whole discuss related topics or cases in the comment thread? The best example is probably that people kept mentioning Reader shutting down whenever they launched something new, a la "not going to use this, see what they did to Reader".
Not sure it's entirely the same as this case, but hijacking threads with "remember when this happened?" is not that unique.
