[citricsquid]

This is a problem that affects a lot of people that post on HN -- as in, their websites blame the user -- so the blog post helps everyone, right?

[paulgb]

Yes, but so would a comment, and it would come off as more constructive and less self-promotional.

[beezee]

not that I mind a little traffic to my blog, but as I've mentioned in a few spots now this was more of a strategic choice in the sense of how I might incentivize the repo maintainer to give a crap.