[ACow_Adonis]

Yes, I understand the guidelines.

Our area of disagreement, from my perspective, seems to be your emphasis on "assume good faith", whereas mine is on "strongest plausible interpretation". To which I would point out, with the context of the account's past posting history, the assumption of good faith is no longer the strongest plausible interpretation. Doubly so in the context of a comment thread specifically about/containing discussion of bad faith actions and hostile workplace environment stemming from said company.

Now don't get me wrong, I think it's possible for two people to reasonably disagree over this.

But I think that's it's also reasonable to point out that in an attempt to stop discussion devolving to personal attacks under such an interpretation of essentially ahistorical accounts/context, you raise the bias and de-evolution of the comments on HN to biasing towards marketing, boosters, bots, astroturfers, etc.