the hackernewses whining that linus is so unfair in enacting legal sanctions against the russian who works in development for bomb components are comedy gold

he has many responsibilities:

• sometimes he disagrees with an article title that’s entirely accurate and people aren’t buying his assertion that it’s clickbait, so he adds a question mark to it to try to make the article look less credible
• tone policing
• ignoring blatant flagging abuse
• adding sites and posters on YC’s shitlist to the autodead filter
• his bonuses are almost definitely predicated on how many of Garry Tan’s many fash friends feel comfortable posting on the orange site