That is entirely users doing that. Admins didn't touch those comments or even see them...I've been dealing with nothing but the queen all day and didn't even look at this thread until now.

We don't flag comments that are critical of YC companies; we moderate HN in exactly the opposite direction, as I've explained many times: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu.... That's not to say we don't moderate at all—but we do considerably less than we normally do.