I actually undid that yesterday, after replying to you here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44321299. I did so because I didn't want to give the wrong impression of having punished you after moderating you, when in fact the two issues are unrelated.

Since you brought it up, I'll clarify here: you're abusing your profile page to publish false and misleading claims about HN. Specifically, you say that "some users are favored so they get more upvotes" and "some users get a handicap, so upvotes to their accounts do not register". Both claims are untrue.

I understand that HN's voting algorithm is hard to figure out from the outside—it needs to be, for several reasons, such as that people are constantly trying to game it. But that doesn't make it ok to publish damaging falsehoods about HN. A user who doesn't know this place well, who happens to read that, will come away with an untrue impression which could easily discourage them from participating here.

Had you said those things in a comment, we could provide corrective information in a reply—but there's no way to do that on someone's profile page. Besides that, the About box isn't supposed to be for venting grievances or taking revenge on HN (as people are sometimes wont to do). When people abuse the About box in such ways, I think it's reasonable to hide it.

Now that I've made it clear what the issue is, and that it is unrelated to the other moderation reply, I'm going to hide your About box again. If you want to edit it to take out the false claims, I'd be happy to reverse that again.

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Edit: it turns out that I emailed you when we originally did this back in March, and explained all of the above:

"This is unrelated to the moderation reply I just posted at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43520108, other than that I happened to look at your profile page while writing it.

I just noticed that you have this in the About box of your profile: "PSA: HN has a hidden algorithm that manipulates the vote count for specific lists of users. Some users are favored so they get 10x more upvotes, some other users get a handicap on them, so upvotes to their accounts do not register. So, don't take karma at face value, as it is not "honest". tl;dr, even HN is propaganda."

That's entirely false and badly misleading of others. I'm not ok with that being published on HN in a place where there's no way to answer or correct it, so I've turned off the About field in your public profile.

I have nothing against you and you're welcome on HN, but not to make false statements like this which poison others against the site and the community. If you want to take that out of your profile and let me know when it's done, I'll be happy to restore your About field to public view.

Daniel (dang)