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You didn't do anything wrong. A newsworthy public comment made by a public person (certainly 'newsworthy' and 'public' in the context of a site called 'Hacker News').

What Joshua (enabled by PG) did was simply silly. Don't add to the silliness by brown-nosing.

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Not brownnosing. I should have realized that if I wasn't comfortable posting this under my real name I shouldn't have posted it at all.

Definitely newsworthy and interesting, however.

It's a reddit thing. Not polite here.

Let's assume that's the case (although it's a strange custom because, again, it's quite conceivable someone comments something that in itself is newsworthy and comment-on-able).

If it's impolite, presumably the magical social filter will take care of it by downvoting or ignoring. Calling in the heavy artillery for something trivial like that is still ham-handed and unwarranted. You can't have said something like that unaware that it will end up all over the place anyway, as it did.

The thread was flagged and removed before PG got to it. So yes, it was voted against social mores.

It was voted because you asked people to flag it

Sure. But they did it.

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