[dang]

> I was recently chided and reproached by the HN mods for knocking scooter companies

On the contrary, I chided you for posting in the flamewar style (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20347016), which we don't want on HN and which the site guidelines ask you not to do. We don't care about scooter companies, we care about the signal/noise ratio of HN threads.

[MrLeap]

Dang, you're a treasure.

[will_brown]

Well not to rock the boat or beat a dead horse here, but it would appear my down voting/flagging privileges have been removed since this post, could they be reinstated?

[dang]

None of your privileges has been removed, either before the post or after. What did you see that made you think that?