Honestly, I once got a gentle slap from dang, and it made me reevaluate my comment. Downvoting is easily ignored.
Also quite amusing what someone will take time out of their day to down vote sometimes.
He has to regularly see multiple sides of the site. HN is pretty diverse depending on what you click and as such, I do think he is less biased in some ways we are and more biased in others as he work as a mod for hn.