We certainly try to. But you'd probably get farther with us if you worked on your own stuff first.
Two posts in violation of a policy regularly broken makes it so if I complain about this bad behavior someone else is using against me, such complaints are not relevant, but I may be banned from your website.
Am I understanding this correctly?
That is like complaining when you get a speeding ticket because other people were speeding and didn't get pulled over.
These types of selective moderation make HN seem like the typical hive-mind that shouts down and uses abusive moderative tactics to prevent any diversity of opinion from sticking around.