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It's particularly uncool that you're doing this, given the number of times that you posted at length accusing us (falsely) of nefarious actions in moderating this site.
Btw, I took special care to make sure that your own startup got a nice amount of exposure on HN, despite the fact that the posts were obviously ringvoted. We make a point of not holding grudges and try to make sure that good, interesting content gets seen. But please stop using manipulative promotional tactics either for your own stuff or your friends.
I don't normally post publicly about these things but when people try to mess with another startup's launch thread, it gets my goat (YC-related or not), and to use manipulative tactics while doing it goes over my threshold for saying something.
It seems the main mods problem with what I did is plugging our github url, which made it obvious I diverted attention from needl's launch, mistake I made. I'm not deleting any comments, because I prefer context to mod interactions stand in broad daylight.
I'm truely sorry, I like this forum, mods here are awesome.
Obviously I can't know what happened off the site, but to judge by what I'm looking at in the data at our end, this exchange was obviously not organic, nor was this the first evidence of collusion that I found.