Alright, I'll buy that, though I don't agree that the story didn't get a "fair shake". It got quite a fair few wiggles and is still getting them. But the point about it being a quasi-censorship story seems reasonable, so I'll change the title back to the submitter's for now.
It would be much better if the title used language from the article itself, so if you or anyone can figure out a fair way to do that, I'd appreciate the suggestion. Obviously my attempt to do so was not universally well received.
As for "I find all moderator actions inherently distasteful except in the cases of obvious trolling", that doesn't rub me the right way at all, for two reasons. First it implies that most of our work is useless, and if that's true, we're fools, wasting our time. Alternatively, if it isn't useless, you're spending time here benefitting from all of it, in which case a line like that seems pretty smug.
Glad you changed the title back, though it's kind of a moot point now. You're right that this story is getting a fair shake now thanks to a seperate post, though.
>As for "I find all moderator actions inherently distasteful except in the cases of obvious trolling", that doesn't rub me the right way at all, for two reasons. First it implies that most of our work is useless, and if that's true, we're fools, wasting our time. Alternatively, if it isn't useless, you're spending time here benefitting from all of it, in which case a line like that seems pretty smug.
Well, I'm sure you've got your hands full keeping up with spam and trolling and such, but fwiw I have disagreed (often silently) with probably 75%ish of the moderator actions I've noticed on HN.
It would be much better if the title used language from the article itself, so if you or anyone can figure out a fair way to do that, I'd appreciate the suggestion. Obviously my attempt to do so was not universally well received.
As for "I find all moderator actions inherently distasteful except in the cases of obvious trolling", that doesn't rub me the right way at all, for two reasons. First it implies that most of our work is useless, and if that's true, we're fools, wasting our time. Alternatively, if it isn't useless, you're spending time here benefitting from all of it, in which case a line like that seems pretty smug.