The &#x27;edit&#x27; option lasts for 2 hours. I meant please edit such stuff out of future posts.<p>The parent comment was wild, inflammatory, and snarky, so it was a bad comment for HN—but still wasn&#x27;t personally abusive. That is beside the point here though. The rules apply to you whether someone else broke them or not. If we all just point at others, this site is lost.