Hold on there. While it's certainly unfortunate that the top thread ended up as a debate of internal HN issues, there is within it a legitimate desire to help. When I saw that this was the intent of the parent, I posted in that thread so that anyone scanning the top of the page would regain the context needed to see the gravity of the original article.

To be fair, it looked (to me, anyway) to be out of genuine concern that the change to the title would reduce the interest of people on HN who could see the post and maybe help out Aaron.

I stand by my comment, negative votes and all.

I'll take a few more negative votes for this comment, please...

How can you go from complaining about HN bull in one post to begging for downvotes in the very next one?

I was being ironic ;)