>silent majority that works tirelessly to keep this site relatively free of ads disguised as articles and political news.

And just like the other "Silent majority", this is utter tripe.

Every other submission is an ad FFS. Nobody is doing anything to remove ads. HN Itself is an ad.

It's not "Silent", as these people love nothing more than reminding you that topics they don't like are objectively "politics" and "Don't belong on HN" even though HN tried that once and it was terrible

And they aren't "Majority", because the flagging mechanism requires shockingly few flags before a post is knocked off the front page, and if anyone tries to plead any case in the comments, that also knocks it off the page, as a "flamewar", because apparently on a place that insists it is curating thoughtful discussion, high velocity discussion is impossible?

It's a heckler's veto is what it is.