Yes, but it seems from discussion here earlier news.yc user accounts are reviewed as part of the YC application process (this has been mentioned before). As su

Yes, but it seems from discussion here earlier news.yc user accounts are reviewed as part of the YC application process (this has been mentioned before). As such, even though PG would never penalize users for upvoting critical articles, I'm guessing there are some users that are paranoid anyways and playing it safe.