Comment by dang

(tomhow and I were both replying at the same time)

I see what you mean and yeah it often happens that friends or users of a project try to "help out" in this way. It's fine on many other platforms, so it's more of a misunderstanding than anything. People don't realize that it runs against HN's culture.

I've moved those comments to a stub post now (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44752791).