The user dang is the moderator. A charitable reading of his comment would be that dang was relieved that someone else was responding to the subthread in a way consistent with his sense of how people should act on Hacker News.<p>Meta-discussion of the black bar is intellectually uninteresting at best. Off topic in the middle. And disrespectful of people&#x27;s grief at worst. The least of these is reason enough to downvote.