Thanks, appreciate your perspective. This is much more insightful than just "affiliated==botnet". I agree that this can be a huge positive and - at least for me - that was the motivation for wanting to be active in the comments; to see if there are any challenging questions, feedback, etc.

As a HN user, I often go straight to the comments and only look at the submission if there's an interesting discussion there. I can totally see how spammy-looking comments with an undisclosed affiliation can have the exact opposite effect.

(affiliated with Weaviate)