Now, the discussions do tend to be good on the whole - but many users here are fed up with the topic and want to get back to hacking. I'm glad to see more reasoned discussions happening, and hope that people could look back at themselves when this thing first occured and see how they reacted then.
I'm not sure what you mean by provenance but people should know that HN moderators haven't touched this article (other than to turn off the flamewar detector, because the thread, against all odds, is not a flamewar). We're surprised that it made it to #1 and delighted that the discussion has mostly remained respectful, at least compared to the tire fires of the last couple weeks. IMO this has a lot to do with the care that Cadran and the other authors put into crafting the post.
Remember, the content here is made by the users. For free.
Perhaps it feels to you like HN moderation is ideologically driven, but that's not so. It does feel that way, unfortunately, to most ideologically committed users. There doesn't seem to be anything we can do about it; everyone jumps to the conclusion that the deck is stacked against them, and the comments about this tend to be much the same regardless of the ideology of the commenter. Indeed the evils of HN moderation seem to be the only thing they all agree on! This bothered me for a few years but eventually there's little sense in being bothered by an optical illusion.
More about this in the many comments at https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=...
Funny, I see a dominant opinion in the other (flagged) threads and an another dominant opinion in this one.
1695 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14952787
754 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15009759
I have also been checking the Algolia "Last 24h" view to find flagged discussions that I missed, however.