[gzread]

What if their goal is more to raise awareness about HN moderation practices than to fix the problem quickly?

It's certainly worked. Lots of people have seen this and now have a slightly worse opinion of HN moderation.

[tptacek]

Probably offset by the people whose opinion of HN moderation will improve as a result of this. Six of one, &c.

[altairprime]

People tend not to attribute random spam filter breakdowns to the humans moderating content, other than when a specific person suffers over it and takes especial umbrage. It’s more likely that people who visit the story will now have a slightly worse opinion of OP, which sucks because OP is using a poor method to make a good report of a meaningful problem that needed solving. Methods matter! This meeting should have been an email.

[tomhow]

> raise awareness about HN moderation practices

What practices?

[Dylan16807]

Are you asking them to be specific about what they dislike or something?

I feel like the answer to "What practices?" is obvious: "The reason the submissions were being killed is that the GitHub account's address had been banned on HN due to previously being submitted by spam bots."

[tomhow]

I was wondering what “moderation practices” related to this story they thought warranted people having a worse opinion of HN moderation? It's unlikely they were referring to automated spam filters.