Ouch, but you&#x27;re right, except for &#x27;continuous&#x27;. Meta stuff is off-topic, but there&#x27;s a tradeoff. After pg stepped back, users asked for more transparency. pg didn&#x27;t run HN that way because he didn&#x27;t have time and because it isn&#x27;t interesting. More transparency means more meta. We try to keep it down. Normally we&#x27;d downweight this thread, but here that would have looked like trying to bury a story about our own screwup, and HN would &#x27;see through a cheap ploy like that&#x27; whether it was the reason or not.<p>You&#x27;re also right that my post above was impenetrable to people who hadn&#x27;t been following this. Sorry. I didn&#x27;t have time to write a full description, plus I was scared to, because there would have been a volley of objections no matter how I described it.