Right - I agree with you, in general. I just think that this particular situation is a bit different, and Apply HN implies that there are folks outside HN apply

Right - I agree with you, in general. I just think that this particular situation is a bit different, and Apply HN implies that there are folks outside HN applying /to/ HN. Those folks outside HN may have no idea about the voting rules, and it also isn't clear, even to long-time HN users, that this wasn't a different situation entirely.