Posts like these are why I am so incredibly glad that HN isn't the only place where the blog post is being discussed.

This place already was lousy with empathy-challenged people, but these days, man, they’ll gladly kick a person down on their luck.

Good online communities have active and engaged moderation.

That said, Reddit moderation seems stuck in a weird limbo where moderators have a lot of power on paper but completely ineffectual tooling to combat organized and systemic abuse.

Given those limitations I find it hard to imagine Reddit modding ending up any other way.