[willvarfar]

Hmm, posting on a Saturday is not the best tactical time to get someone at HN to read this post... it'll have disappeared off the front-page long before Monday

[citricsquid]

If he replies to this post (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363) with it then it should get noticed, that post seems to be checked every now and again.

[punjsingh]

Thanks for pointing that out. Cross-posted the link to the url in your post. Thanks

[MehdiEG]

In fairness, I would assume that pg and al. are clued in enough to know that HN's login and registration system is complete bollocks. They just don't care about it (presumably, they consider that there are more important things to work on than fixing this, which I'd say is probably true).

[abcd_f]

It wouldn't have a chance to hit the front page if it were submitted on Monday. Slow news day is exactly the time for submitting this sort of fluff.

[willvarfar]

There's nothing communities like better than meta-discussion.

I've seen it myself - my post comparing HN traffic to my blog on technical vs fluffy posts actually got further longer than any of the posts it was comparing.