Comment by dang
4 years ago
Perhaps you've been seeing it more for some reason, or it has seemed more aggressive to you for some reason, but I can tell you that the way we moderate HN's front page hasn't changed in many years.
It's clear to me now that this case was a moderation mistake. We make them sometimes (alas), but that's also been true for many years. Moderation is guesswork. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
It would be nice to have transparency on mod actions like we have with user actions (aka showdead). People are rightfully more nervous as other platforms are switching to heavy handed moderation.