"They understand that it is a bloody muddle, but they regard your simple class-war antagonism as nonsense."
I wonder if Wells was one of the last people to disagree with Stalin who didn't end up with a bullet in the back of their heads?
(Edit: Originally this comment had a moderation bit in it as well, but someone rightly pointed out to me that it isn't helpful to wear the moderator hat and make a regular-user comment in the same post. So I've edited that out. I considered restricting myself to only making moderator comments, but (a) that's never been how HN worked, (b) I was a user long before a moderator, and (c) I'd burn out from boredom.)
Sorry for any grief caused and keep up the good work.
[I promise to engage more brain cells when posting on obviously highly emotive topics in future and, if I have any doubt, to not post].
1. Has anyone suggested making yourself a new moderator account? eg dang_mod for all mod-related comments. It might ease the mental burden for the reader (at the cost of increased mental burden and user-switching for you - so maybe not worth it).
2. As a simpler variant of the above, why not make two separate comments? I expect readers are capable of telling apart your user comment from the moderation if they're cleanly separated.
Edit: The first option would also have the benefit of a user id with its own comment history.
2 is more or less what's what I'm going to do from now on.