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Unless I'm missing something, this is off topic for Hacker News. I'm burying the post.
Thanks for being open about your moderation and intent. Folks need to understand that the alternative is not to have Homestar Runner stay on the Hacker News front page (that was never in the cards), but to go back to silent moderation. This is an improvement.
What's clear is that the community has been starved for answers at our end. It really was a classical starvation problem (algorithmically I mean): the resource stream couldn't come close to keeping up. One reason—the main reason—we're changing HN is to fix that. And we're going to err on the side of verbosity and metaness for a while until we can all relax.
Unless I'm missing something, this is off topic for Hacker News. I'm burying the post.
I don't personally like that you did this, but I think it's the right move and I wholeheartedly support it. The truth is, I only don't like it because homestarrunner.