> As I've explained many times, we intervene less, not more, when stories are anti-YC, precisely because of the conflict of interest. I think strictly speaking

> As I've explained many times, we intervene less, not more, when stories are anti-YC, precisely because of the conflict of interest. I think strictly speaking that may be true, however I suspect the reason that that is is because of the precautions already taken by the HN software and HN operators, e.g. by rankbanning. When users who have voiced anti-YC sentiments are already rankbanned, for example, you don't even need to intervene, because those comments will already have sunk to the bottom. So I think you can probably successfully refute my individual points but the larger spirit of my assertion remains.