Blame HN - anything people do is going to be wrong. The site encourages you to post URLs and everything about the URL is a comment - and gets treated as aggrandizement. Such is life: as long as people seek to accuse others, there's no way to win, no way to raise the water level such that all boats rise, and it's an enduring situation because too many people think it's better to elevate themselves no matter the cost to others, as long as THEY get elevated somehow.