"the fact that we get roughly equal grief for HN comments being bad and for being too quick to ban people is a sign he's been doing a good job so far." - lol. s

"the fact that we get roughly equal grief for HN comments being bad and for being too quick to ban people is a sign he's been doing a good job so far." - lol. spoken like an economist :) it's a pretty weak sign* , but i will assume the decision is not based solely on counting emails. (*) try banning constructive commenters on the site. you would then probably also receive complaints about banning and comment shittiness in equal measure.