[timthelion]

dang, there is no way to tell who the mods are. So those "requests" to change behavior aren't exactly clear that they are from the mods. And non-mods have certainly asked me to change my behavior in the past, and sometimes I have taken their advice and sometimes I have decided not to.

[dang]

It's true, yet I don't feel we should change that, e.g. by putting "mod" beside our names. There's a downside to that sort of thing too, and for HN, I think it's the greater downside.

I'd rather trust the community to figure things out, which it does extraordinarily well.