Training us to do that is exactly how they maintain their control over the community. And it is about control. We’re not allowed to ask for or say anything abou

Training us to do that is exactly how they maintain their control over the community. And it is about control. We’re not allowed to ask for or say anything about HN on HN. I used to feel how you feel, but after examining the reasons why it’s like this, it’s probably better to get in the habit of asking for things on HN itself. Not only was it like that in the old days, but pg even started an explicit feature requests thread where people could vote on feature priority. I don’t think something like voting is useful, to be clear. I’m saying that talking publicly about HN is step one in maintaining our own sense of identity as a community.