> PG gets held to a higher standard than anything else on here. He's unbelievably wealthy and created HN. That gives him an outsize influence that doesn't come

> PG gets held to a higher standard than anything else on here. He's unbelievably wealthy and created HN. That gives him an outsize influence that doesn't come from the merit of his ideas. Critique is a useful counterbalance to that effect so that his ideas get a level of weight more appropriate to their worth.