[pvg]

You didn't do anything wrong. A newsworthy public comment made by a public person (certainly 'newsworthy' and 'public' in the context of a site called 'Hacker News').

What Joshua (enabled by PG) did was simply silly. Don't add to the silliness by brown-nosing.

[phony_identity]

Not brownnosing. I should have realized that if I wasn't comfortable posting this under my real name I shouldn't have posted it at all.

Definitely newsworthy and interesting, however.

[joshu]

It's a reddit thing. Not polite here.

[pvg]

Let's assume that's the case (although it's a strange custom because, again, it's quite conceivable someone comments something that in itself is newsworthy and comment-on-able).

If it's impolite, presumably the magical social filter will take care of it by downvoting or ignoring. Calling in the heavy artillery for something trivial like that is still ham-handed and unwarranted. You can't have said something like that unaware that it will end up all over the place anyway, as it did.

[joshu]

The thread was flagged and removed before PG got to it. So yes, it was voted against social mores.

[idlewords]

It was voted because you asked people to flag it

[joshu]

Sure. But they did it.