> target my submission with needless references (one of those links is over 7 years old now) and have that appear at the top of the comments. This is... dramat

> target my submission with needless references (one of those links is over 7 years old now) and have that appear at the top of the comments. This is... dramatic. Moderation comments appearing at the top of a thread is pretty common and makes perfect sense to me. One of the 'references' you're talking about is the site FAQ, and the other is a thread explaining the policy change re: paywalled articles; I'm not sure why its age is relevant.