Because the GP comment was talking about HN &quot;jumping the shark&quot;, and you were agreeing with them and adding that this was an &quot;abuse of power&quot;—both things suggesting that this action betokened bad things for HN going forward.<p>My point was that it doesn&#x27;t, any more than a waiter asking after your mother&#x27;s health when she&#x27;s just died implies the restaurant is on a decline. That&#x27;s not <i>insensitive</i> (therefore implying the restaurant is now hiring insensitive people); it&#x27;s just a <i>faux pas</i> (therefore implying the restaurant is hiring regular ol&#x27; fallible humans.) The change to the article title here, likewise, was not an <i>abuse</i>; it was just an <i>overly-hasty application of the regular HN guidelines</i>—the thing dang does literally all day without anyone noticing when he&#x27;s doing it well, done with slightly less care than usual.<p>dang is a regular person; regular people realize when they do things other people don&#x27;t like, and then stop doing those things. Systems composed of regular people (i.e. not tyrants and sycophants) self-correct, rather than entering downward spirals. Not everything presages the end of an era. Most things, where conscientious people are involved, are just hiccups.