I believe it also has to do with the context of activity of other submissions. Compare the activity of those submissions with the others on the top page. If yo

I believe it also has to do with the context of activity of other submissions. Compare the activity of those submissions with the others on the top page. If you believe someone is pushing an agenda, please be explicit about what you mean. Who is it? What agenda are they pushing? Hand-waving vague accusations sound like vague conspiracies: it's "them"! The nefarious "they"! Edit to add: From what I've send there is one agenda that is being pushed: keep the community healthy. Try to keep flame wars, off-topic, and other non-constructive discussion to a minimum. If that happens to conflict with what you'd like to see on HN, then likely yes, there is something nefarious going on.