Discussion here is such that I sometimes read the submitted link as an afterthought. Apart from the occasional distraction of a comment by dang, I had operated under the polite fiction that this was the result of self moderation.

Jeff's account leaves me conflicted. I resent heavy-handed, unaccountable moderation, and boy would I be pissed if I was accused of stealing accounts to upvote a HN story of all things. On the other hand, if the alternative is regressing to, say, USENET, what can I say?