Please understand that when we post moderation comments like this, they're not intended personally. The intent is to send feedback into the HN system about what makes for a good thread. The hypothesis is that it will slowly adapt to the feedback. This may be working—some people feel the threads have gotten better—so, even though they're tedious both to write and to read, I'll keep posting them for now. Ideally, the system would eventually become self-correcting. We'll see.