Your comment looks like a lot like FUD to me. You're implying a lot of bad without even attempting to establish that anything bad has happened. It seems to me

Your comment looks like a lot like FUD to me. You're implying a lot of bad without even attempting to establish that anything bad has happened. It seems to me that the way to say negative things without being accused to gratuitous negativity is to have the negative things be substantial and useful rather than just an expression of one's own cynicism. For example, if a conflict of interest had actually reared its ugly head, that comment would be apropos. But in this case, the situation where HN used this rule to do something bad is entirely hypothetical, and is hardly an inevitable outcome.