If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.

Alas, the voting and flagging features aren't sufficient to regulate the system. In fact, none of the community and software mechanisms are sufficient on their own. There needs to be human intervention to jig the system out of its failure modes. Without that, the forum would destroy itself—that is, it would rapidly regress to the internet mean, which means HN wouldn't exist anymore—it would be a completely different place, and probably die off pretty quickly.

If it helps at all, I promise you that the moderation comments are even more tedious to write than they are to read.

As for political bias, I have no idea which bias you think I/we have because we routinely get accused of literally every political bias that exists. People have these perceptions because they grossly overestimate the significance of the moderation calls they dislike, while barely noticing the ones they agree with. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...