Open to some extent, yes. On others, not so much. There's been much discussion on HN with how it handles users from shadowbans, hidden rate limits, story weigh

Open to some extent, yes. On others, not so much. There's been much discussion on HN with how it handles users from shadowbans, hidden rate limits, story weighting and so forth. I don't personally have a problem with those concepts at all, but it does seem weird to me that people here blast Reddit for doing the same things that HN does. There's been instances here of mods editing titles in order to appeal to the trolls (in hopes of removing flame wars, but an appeal nonetheless) for example. Now there's a full different discussion with how HN and Reddit use these tools to try and curate quality however.