[danielweber]

If you find yourself having a bias based on knowingly incomplete information, then you need to stop and rethink your position.

If another party is purposefully keeping information from me, I'm not going to feel bad for making guesses as to what's up and sharing those guesses.

That said, I don't think "open moderation" is necessarily a good thing. I like the experiment that HN is doing of secret moderation. While I like talking about how communities regulate themselves, "open moderation" usually leads to huge amounts of drama and navel-gazing. It remains to be seen if the benefits of secrecy outweigh the drawbacks.