In this comment and also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24867774, you're misinterpreting HN moderation. If you look more closely you will see that it is different than you're imagining. For example, it's neither saying nor implying the things you're mentioning here.
(I'm not saying this to defend anything—I just thought you might be curious.)
In the current discourse there are only a few (if not merely two) squares that people are supposed to occupy, and the prevailing feeling is "you're either in my square or the enemy". But operating a community like HN requires not functioning that way, and we don't function that way. The goal is to open up space for something more interesting and complex than angry bashing. That's not so easy. This thread actually did a pretty good job of it, except where it got sucked into angry bashing.
