I'm glad you said "I feel", because the statement that follows is not true, nor could you know what my worldview is; you've simply imagined it. I have a feeling, too: that people say this when they don't want to admit they've been abusing HN. It's easier to believe that one is being "suppressed" and "censored"—grand political reasons instead of petty procedural ones.
> Calling anything you don't like "tedious" or "acrimonious" and then flagging and removing it
There are orders of magnitude more things that I don't like.
> Especially when PG has written articles specifically about how much he dislikes tone policing.
It's ironic that you would invoke pg when he's the person who wrote the HN guidelines, taught us how to interpret them, and in seven years of commenting on HN never once (to my knowledge) did the things we're asking you not to do. If you really understood what he wrote, you'd follow suit instead of undermining it.