hn is a fun and uplifting place to come on break. The moment anything about it turns negative for you, log off, go code something, and come back tomorrow. We start over every day.
I see HN as a completely different place than you do. I see it as a place to meet people that are interested in the same sort of thing that I'm interested in (at least I hope so), which means that if I were to be misrepresented somehow by some anonymous editor that it would make a huge difference to me.
I've had things I posted on HN come back to bite me in the ass, not in large ways but in ways that indicate people are willing to read through a person's posts to find more about them. That's why I no longer list any personal details in my profile. It's a shame, because I don't get the lengthy email discussions that used to follow threads, but I don't want any ties between this and anything else I've done.
I've felt before like deleting this account and its posts along with it; I regret that there's no option for me to do so.