He treated it like a game, even though he was given the ability to destroy a non-trivial communal resource.
I want to resist this a bit. I actually got more value out of the “blown up” frontpage then I would have from a normal frontpage that day. A bit of “cool to see what the LW devs prepared for this case”, a bit of “cool, something changed!” and some excitement about learning something.
Looks like the Monkey’s Paw curled a finger here …