Edit: also, please don't take HN threads further into flamewar! as you did below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38477500. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.
That's pretty antisocial behavior. Humans walk, humans drive cars, and we have good reasons for both modes of transportation. Crosswalks are an attempt to allow coexistence safely.
Antagonizing people who are using a different mode of transportation at the moment does not seem helpful at all. You may even cause other people to become accustomed to seeing crosswalk signals activated for no reason, reducing their attentiveness and increasing the risk of injury to people actually crossing the road.
I posted moderation replies to people on both sides of the argument who were breaking the site guidelines. It's possible that I missed others. This is common, actually, because we don't come close to seeing everything that gets posted to HN and we often don't read the threads in order.
If you see a post that ought to have been moderated but hasn't been, that's the likeliest explanation. You can always help by flagging it or emailing us at hn@ycombinator.com.
This is a perfect case of thinking you are doing a net good, but in actuality just doing more harm by pissing a lot of drivers off and potentially causing a road rage incident. Do this in a large northern city and you may even get more than what you bargained for.
