it's complicated. obviously, specific instances like yours happen, and suck. But, there's a well known effect seen on HN: people tend to give partial, and usual

it's complicated. obviously, specific instances like yours happen, and suck. But, there's a well known effect seen on HN: people tend to give partial, and usually one sided summaries of what went on. we've seen this repeatedly with e.g. google lockdowns, where a specific thing like "I broke their terms and conditions explicitly when I did <x>" is not communicated well in the rant here. Some mods are lazy. Some mods are on a power trip. Some mods are not singular, and you may be receiving outcomes from internal distributed mis-communication. Most mods are severely overloaded.