[QAPereo]

You turned off flags, but now you’re doing something else yourself. You’re being honest, but not really telling the whole story.

Your thumb is very much on the scale however, where existing community sentiment doesn’t do the job.

Edit: I didn’t intend to be cryptic or confuse you. I mean just that proclaiming you’ve put one of many tools on the shelf for this thread in no way implies what you tried to imply.

[dang]

Apart from the cloak-and-dagger tone, this either says something obvious—that HN is moderated—or says nothing.

[pmarreck]

Do you have the evidence to cash the checks your mouth is writing?

Until you do, you're also making a fallacious appeal to conspiracy: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Conspiracy_theory

[QAPereo]

why would I need evidence? Dang isn’t contesting the point, just the terminology.

dang 1 hour ago [-]

Apart from the cloak-and-dagger tone, this either says something obvious—that HN is moderated—or says nothing.