A better title would have been 'Bram Cohen loses Freenode nick, complains' as generally articles here take the title from the link where possible and try not to editorialize when it isn't.
...but it would probably be better still if Internet drama was kept as far away from HN as possible.
On the contrary, I find stuff like this highly interesting and consider myself a hacker. I found the comments between Calacanis and Aaron Wall the most awesome stuff I read on Hacker News in the past week, to be honest, and the way I found those was by looking at the HN top rated comments.
It would be interesting to hear other hacker's feelings before we decide what is best for the community.
...but it would probably be better still if Internet drama was kept as far away from HN as possible.