[d23]

> Posting account is suspicious as it was created at the time of the comment for the comment and the username has no other trace on the internet. Very suspect, impossible to prove of course though.

Seems pretty common to me. People frequently create accounts on sites just to ask a question or because they need something. This is probably the most common case / the long tail of most activity on social media sites.

[zamadatix]

The suspect part is that the username doesn't have any trace on the internet not just that it was a new account. Particularly relevant in this case since it's a 17 month old project with 9 total issues/PRs (or one every ~2 months) and this is the only such follow up to ever occur and the only one with such an account. Note: suspect, not guaranteed.

Again though the claim isn't it must be an impossibility to be anything else just a very suspect set of circumstances around the ping and impossible to prove one way or the other. I don't think it matters one way or another in the message, it's a good message and clearly popular, but that doesn't have anything to do with being staged or not.

[d0100]

I have a github account exclusively to post "dumb" questions