I think a chunk of HN consists of Apple and Google aficionados(nothing wrong with that, we're all technology guys with strong opinions here), so I notice that a

I think a chunk of HN consists of Apple and Google aficionados(nothing wrong with that, we're all technology guys with strong opinions here), so I notice that anything critical of them either tends to neglected even if it's newsworthy or tends to get heavily flagged(so you see a story with 50 points posted 3 hours ago at the bottom of the page and stories with less points posted more than 3 hours ago on top). People (mis?)use the flagging as a way to get things off the front page rather than only as a way to vote down spam and unrelated content. Same with the comment section, people get a little sensitive and trigger happy with the moderating. Does not happen with every story obviously, but the trend is definitely there. I believe this explains his frustration more than some hidden agenda by mods to censor things. It's still a democracy, even if a little skewed with the community biases. BTW sure fire way of getting karma is to pile on MS :) PS: PG, can we get some stats on OSes/Broswers used on HN? There's a couple of stats compiled by sites that were linked that show ~40% OS X usage, so just curious. And if those can be correlated with karma(respecting privacy, of course), we could get even more insight into the community.