A major gripe I have about this is the selective enforcement of this "positive bias" based on what seems to be favoritism towards Western sentiments and the ensuing under correction of errors.

To give an extreme example, these two comments in different threads are basically the same in terms of sentiment, prose and effect, however, one criticizes the CCP for their genocide of Uighurs, and the other criticizes the Queen. The difference here is one comment is at the top of the discussion while the other got the user banned.[0][1]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24881093

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32770904

The "likeliest explanation" of ignorance for [0] here doesn't hold since moderation has posted comments on the topic and again, it's the top comment of an extremely popular thread.

Here are some more examples of popular but off-topic for HN comments against Putin and Cloudflare respectively.

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6371615

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32707053

and their equivalents in this thread:

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32771398

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32769645

[6] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32769550

Dang, a million kudos to you for curating the site, but this topic has been an absolute train-wreck and I hope you can at least take it off the front page.