[dang]

I appreciate the edit, but "sopping wet with cynicism" still breaks the site guidelines, especially this one: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[bagxrvxpepzn]

Understood, in the future I will refrain from questioning motives in featured articles. I can no longer edit my post but you may delete or flag it so that others will not be exposed to it.

[dang]

It's ok—we mostly just care about recalibrating for future posts. Thanks for the kind replies! As you can imagine, we don't always get those :)