Dang, why does your mod account repeatedly promote certain certain political ideologies and censor polite and reasonable comments from viewpoints contrary to those. In particular, please state for the record whether the actions of your mod account represent the official viewpoints and policies of the ycombinator board members. Also please identify clearly and specifically which ycombinator staff controls the dang censorship account and whether they are paid staff. Please consider this an official inquiry. Thank you very much in advance for your reasoned and official response.
We try to do our job professionally and not moderate HN in favor of any specific politics. I can't claim we've overcome bias—most bias is unconscious, so that would be silly—but we work hard to mitigate it, and have probably gotten better with practice.
Pretty sure your factual claims here are way off base, so it's hard to take this comment as anything other than an expression of how strongly you hold your views. That tends to go along with expressing oneself uncivilly. That's natural, I've done it, I still do it; but it's something we're all asked to contain here.
This information is all public, and was published at the time dang became a full time moderator as opposed to merely a highly valued user. Please feel free to go and read the already existing official information that answers your questions.
