I appreciate all of that, but calling for communal punishment with a bogus claim that it&#x27;s the only thing that will work (something you can&#x27;t possibly know) still crosses the line here.<p>It shouldn&#x27;t be hard to see why. Imagine reading HN and hearing your fellow users call for you to be punished for crimes you are at least as aghast at, and personally more likely to suffer from, than the rest of the HN population is.