Probably because if they bring that tone to enough topics, eventually they will be right. Though also probably not for the reasons they think (e.g. they say a post will be removed because it discusses a controversial topic when in reality it was removed because it was just plain garbage content).
top_sigrid|2 years ago
Like someone above pointed out, a rule of moderation on HN literally is, that stories about HN or ycombinator companies itself are moderated less [0].
[0] - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
ziml77|2 years ago