That's a common sentiment when people see someone they happen to agree with getting moderated, but no - that's far from the case, and I can assure you the people with opposite views feel the same way. That is, they're just as sure that we're siding with your team. I assume it's no different with refs and sports.
The first comment that I searched for to look at its parent comments was created 11 months ago by an account 11 months old... "HN is a right wing cesspool"... I truly believe that he was new here, or trolling.
But either way, that comment from /u/jessaustin that was completely hidden (unless you enable show-dead) was less harsh (it was probably even just a fact) then the "HN is a right wing cesspool" comment that was not hidden...
> But either way, that comment from /u/jessaustin that was completely hidden (unless you enable show-dead) was less harsh (it was probably even just a fact) then the "HN is a right wing cesspool" comment that was not hidden
You can't draw any conclusion at all from a pair of random data points (or rather, you can draw any conclusion at all). Moderation isn't a total ordering—it's a stochastic process that mostly works with random samples.
> The first comment that I searched for to look at its parent comments was created 11 months ago by an account 11 months old... "HN is a right wing cesspool"... I truly believe that he was new here, or trolling.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26148870
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...