Insinuations of astroturfing or shillage are the commonest toxic internet trope around, and we don't allow them here without evidence. People feeling differently about C++ doesn't count as evidence of anything other than that programmers feel differently and identify with different things.
I've posted hundreds of times about this, so I don't think it's true that HN has a lack of accountability and transparency about it. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
Could you please review and respect the rules here? You've broken quite a few of them in this thread.