Rarely does anyone ever comment to agree on something. And merely being contrarian is not valuable in of itself.

If a few things are over-moderated I might be mildly missing out. So what? Humans are fallible. There is no perfect system. You're not arguing that HN is so moderated that it's completely worthless. You're not even getting close to that.

So what do we do about a system that isn't perfect but is doing a pretty fine job?