That's not true at all, as anyone who skims through the last few days' threads on the topic can easily see.
The one thing that ideologically committed HN readers all seem to agree on is that the community is full of (and the mods secretly in league with) their enemies. If you were in our shoes you'd find it as surreal as I do how consistently we hear this from all sides. The sincerity is similar in all cases, but obviously they can't all be right because their interpretations are opposite.
I don't think 'we must be doing things right if all sides are criticizing us like that'; that's a bad argument because the truth doesn't average out that way. But I do think that perceptions of the HN community and moderation are dominated by cognitive bias in way that makes it hard to have a clear conversation about it.
The one thing that ideologically committed HN readers all seem to agree on is that the community is full of (and the mods secretly in league with) their enemies. If you were in our shoes you'd find it as surreal as I do how consistently we hear this from all sides. The sincerity is similar in all cases, but obviously they can't all be right because their interpretations are opposite.
I don't think 'we must be doing things right if all sides are criticizing us like that'; that's a bad argument because the truth doesn't average out that way. But I do think that perceptions of the HN community and moderation are dominated by cognitive bias in way that makes it hard to have a clear conversation about it.