Kinda funny how no moderators have responded... makes me uncomfortable that this community seems to be arbitrarily moderated by invisible people.

See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4102598 (posted a little later than your comment) -- though I'm not sure anigbrowl is a regular moderator, he just mentions that he sometimes does change titles.

That's all I see, though -- and I agree, I was expecting to see a conversation that doesn't seem to be happening.

Well, hopefully the mods are listening and will be more cautious in their future edits....

I know what you mean – I totally don't intend this for production, I just did it for the sake of doing it. When/if I write a tutorial I'll do it properly and be a good web citizen.

Nope, only that I didn't put in -moz- prefixes. Probably shoulda!

Wow, love it – really nice. I shall put together some more demos, see where it can be taken!

Thanks very much for the great comment.

I agree, I didn't go as far as I could have — but then the article is intended as more of a warning than an in depth discussion of a struggle. Having said that, I definitely saw in myself the symptoms of escalation.

My hope is that anyone in a similar situation recognises in it themselves and makes a change, preventing anything worse, whatever that might be, from occurring.