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I'm a moderator here. The users replying to you are correct: the comments at https://news.ycombinator.com/posts?id=martincollignon are way over the line and we would have asked you to stop if we had seen them. When someone does this for their startup that's an immediate ban.

The principle of HN is intellectual curiosity: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Repetition is the enemy of curiosity—readers come here for things they haven't seen before. So is promotion—readers come here for relief from growth marketing, not to be subjected to it. We want users to post to HN when their personal intellectual curiosity is engaged, and not otherwise.

Rallying support for a cause is no different, even if the cause is important—more important than the rest of what's on this site. In fact, that importance means that HN needs even more protection, because otherwise it would be taken over completely by those more important things.