Title: In view of the &quot;new management&quot; listed at http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.ycombinator.com&#x2F;meet-the-people-taking-over-hacker-news , first of all, congrats, and hope the job is not as thankless as it might have the potential to be!<p>Secondly, I (and I believe a number of others), whilst appreciating all the efforts that you guys are making to keep HN a great place to be, frequently feel baffled, hurt or just insulted by the way that moderation is applied.<p>I believe that the main reason for that is not actually bad moderation, but lack of transparency in the moderation. When you don&#x27;t know why the article you just submitted dropped off the front page suddenly, you tend to assume the worst (whatever &quot;the worst&quot; might be contextually).<p>So here is a simple plea: please, please, please, make an effort to make the moderation more transparent. This will inexorably reduce and perhaps even eventually eliminate all perceptions and claims of foul play, and help keep HN a healthy place.<p>Transparency is such a fundamental, almost universal startup value. Surely it should be an HN value too.<p>Those who hide behind secrecy and refuse to explain their actions do so at the expense of trust. Be on the right side of this debate, please, please, please.
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