I'm grateful that you didn't accuse anyone specific (that would be worse), but it still degrades the discussion to make this charge without evidence.

> you don't find the moderation patterns in these threads just a little suspicious?

I don't know exactly what moderation patterns you mean, but for the most part what we see is pretty easily explained. Take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11844253.

We're dead serious when we do find evidence: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&prefix=true&page=0&dateR...