It’s more likely to be a side effect of the main blog being in PHP and the bbs being actively developed in Ruby. I wouldn’t assume malevolence when there’s any number of perfectly feasible technical explanations.
Besides, if the BB staff wanted to reduce the visibility of criticism they’d just delete your post. But Xeni, at least, is more likely to just tell you to ‘eat a bag of dicks’. God, I nearly fell on the floor laughing when she told that guy off!