There are no real "HN mods", this isn't reddit. There is basically one admin, dang, who does not do this. What is actually happening is enough regular users wh

There are no real "HN mods", this isn't reddit. There is basically one admin, dang, who does not do this. What is actually happening is enough regular users who have been on the site long enough (myself included) just disagree that some particular piece of content belongs on this site, so they flag it. What people really have a problem with is not understanding that lots of other people just disagree with them.