I mean yeah, but when there's a bunch of green accounts whose only comments are horrible corpo-speak takes on one single submission they're basically holding a sign that says "I am not a real HN commenter".
This might be the one guideline that makes me uneasy. I get why it's in place - some people will call anybody that disagrees with them a shill or whatever - but to pretend it isn't happening while it so obviously is feels a bit immoral. At the very least, it's certainly complacent.