So the community itself should have no say in how things work? It's this sort of attitude that leads me to make comments which get downvoted. More logically, Y

So the community itself should have no say in how things work? It's this sort of attitude that leads me to make comments which get downvoted. More logically, Ycomb gets a lot of prestige and "free" marketing from the quality and popularity of HN. It's in their interests to maintain and improve that quality. Besides, they're hardly going to lose clients because a couple of negative comments don't get downvoted into oblivion as swiftly as before.