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> the code is not public, so we can't know.

I feel like you're making this statement in bad faith, rather than honestly believing the developers of the forum software here have built in a clause to pin simonw's comments to the top.

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> certain users' comments might get a preferential treatment

This does not happen. It hasn't even happened when pg made the forum in the first place.

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I thought dang explicitly said it does happen? It certainly happens for stories.
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