I'll assume you're not included in that opinion. Because attacking a fair comment was uncalled for; but allowed because you're an admin.
The reason why we use throwaways is precisely because of sporadic and heavy-handed "moderation" by you and your employees.
Not only that, but you engage in hellbanning. It's an absolutely disgusting practice, which only encourages us more honest users to hide behind throwaways... Or toe the line with silicon valley groupthink.
(note: you can delete this username whenever. I plan not to use this again. I don't want my regular accounts hellbanned.)
Of course I'm included. I'm far from perfect, but do work on it every day, which is all we ask of others.
If you want your claims about HN moderation abuse taken seriously, you'll need to supply links to specific cases of alleged abuse. Outraged comments such as this one almost never do so, and on the rare occasions when they have, I have not observed the community agreeing.
Data suggests that these comments are typically posted by a tiny number of users who create multiple accounts to do it. If there were reason to believe that the broader community felt the same way, we'd be a lot more proactive about changing how we moderate HN. But in fact the evidence points to the reverse.
