PS: for those deciding to flag this submission, please note that dang is HN's moderator (as announced by pg here[1]). The HN team could physically prevent such posts, but instead is asking the community.
I think this is what bothers me. No disrespect meant to dang, but because of their position, it is difficult to figure out whether this is a plea or a mandate, which makes it problematic as people clearly aren't sure whether this is up for debate, or overrides the existing method we have of keeping bad things off of the front page in favour of moderator discretion (which I'm aware existed anyway, but more for posts that were clearly garbage/spam/trolls).
[1] http://blog.ycombinator.com/meet-the-people-taking-over-hack...