You're assuming moderator omniscience - always a bad bet: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que.... We don't come close to seeing everything, and every HN user sees things we don't.

I know that looks like sinister bias when your passions on a topic are intense enough, but this is very much a construct of the beholder, as anyone who takes the time to look at our actual track record would see.