It's like watching fundamentalist trying to preserve their purity when their kosher brands are racing to imitate the features of the forbidden brand.
Hearing the "underage girls dancing and lip syncing, no thanks" line repeated fills me with a similar rage that I get when I hear some racist stereotype.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> I got my HN account locked when I was begging people to
I don't know what "locked" means but that is not at all an accurate description of how HN accounts get moderated.