Shame on you for supporting the clowns. Their anti-rational, anti health measures claims are detrimental to your site and your society. Protecting them from even mild criticism is clown moderation. Shame!
Other people being clowns, or you feeling that they are, does not make it ok to break HN's rules. In fact, these things are quite unrelated.
It's common for people who get moderated or banned to feel like we're secretly siding with their enemies*, but there's no such implication or any basis to that. Moderation doesn't mean we "support" them or anyone else.
It's common for people who get moderated or banned to feel like we're secretly siding with their enemies*, but there's no such implication or any basis to that. Moderation doesn't mean we "support" them or anyone else.
* https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...