Slightly, but that was the custom at the time.
knowing that most of them had already been replaced with diverse individuals prompting an inclusive LLM for equitable $2/hr pleases me immeasurably.
If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
There are a couple of reasons why you're experiencing what you've described.
(1) We don't see everything that gets posted to HN, or even close. There is far too much. If you see a post that ought to have been moderated but hasn't been, the likeliest explanation is that we didn't see it. You can help by flagging it or emailing us at hn@ycombinator.com. (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...)
(2) It always feels like the moderators are against you (or your side in a controversy) and secretly favoring the other side or letting them get away with more. (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...)
The most important phrase in your description is "I never see". That's because what you see is strongly conditioned by your own priors. (Again, I don't mean you personally. Everyone does this.)
You're much more likely to notice the cases that you dislike and disagree with, and to put more weight on those and arrive at general views of HN based on them. (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...). Everyone does this, which leads to the somewhat ironic situation that everyone feels like we're secretly against them.