I think you're on to something here. The core of this is probably that HN is different things to different people. You see it as a place to come on a break, and then it wouldn't matter much to you whether or not you got 'misrepresented' somehow. In this case it wasn't that important, but in the more general case to have your words changed is not good, especially without a trace that that is what happened.
I see HN as a completely different place than you do. I see it as a place to meet people that are interested in the same sort of thing that I'm interested in (at least I hope so), which means that if I were to be misrepresented somehow by some anonymous editor that it would make a huge difference to me.
I see HN as a completely different place than you do. I see it as a place to meet people that are interested in the same sort of thing that I'm interested in (at least I hope so), which means that if I were to be misrepresented somehow by some anonymous editor that it would make a huge difference to me.