On: What Does ‘Off the Record’ Really Mean?

[s73v3r_]

Then delete the comments. If we're not supposed to respond to something that terrible, don't leave it on the site.

[dang → s73v3r_]

What you're not supposed to do is take someone else's bad comment as a license to violate the rules yourself.

HN does 'delete' comments in one way (flagging by user or moderator), but this is not a complete solution because such comments appear before they are killed.