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It's not an "interesting framing", it's bog-standard boring: HN has guidelines for commenting and you broke them.

You may be falling into the common error of assuming that the moderation comment expresses an opposing opinion about the topic you care about*, but in fact it has zero to do with this, except insofar as when the topic is divisive, there is an additional guideline:

"Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

* https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...


It's hard to to not have that misconception when it appears that moderation comments are selectively communicated

Yes, that's true.

He's referring to incivility, not to positions.



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