Thanks dang! All I meant by “clearly” was that the signal-to-heat was the same between the two articles. Sometimes user flags are overridden by mods, so it se

Thanks dang! All I meant by “clearly” was that the signal-to-heat was the same between the two articles. Sometimes user flags are overridden by mods, so it seemed like maybe that’s what happened on Sam’s article but not on this one? I am worried by your argument that we just discussed his yesterday so let’s not today, it’s just as much about the articles as the discussion, this article has substance and is a neat counterpoint to Sam's article, don’t you think? Perhaps in these cases lock comments but leave the article on the front page? Regarding the influence of HN, please don’t ignore that Sam is YC’s president and YC operates HN, so maybe the issue is just that HN isn’t sufficiently independent from YC? Under the status quo the optics look really bad. Thanks for the thoughtful reply and your hard work! It reassures me that you take the judgment calls you make seriously. Communities like HN are challenging to moderate indeed.