What was really "shady": 1) Attempts by competitors and their minions to blank out any supporters or positive news on V. 2) Mass shadowbanning and banning of V

What was really "shady": 1) Attempts by competitors and their minions to blank out any supporters or positive news on V. 2) Mass shadowbanning and banning of V supporters, while censoring lots of positive coverage. 3) Tipping the scales (also reflected in downvoting), by allowing lies and even direct slander from known persons of competing organizations (languages even on their profiles), while they pushed what looked like HN "favored" or "protected status" languages. Arguably, only the explosion of AI slop (maybe it's more profitable), has slowed down the outrageous bombardment of Zig and Rust peddling. Languages which are not even in the top 10, but one would not have known that, by the number of previous HN headlines.