I think an affliation heads-up is required if you are pissing on a competitor's product. And in such cases, HN does effective policing. It is also possibly hel

I think an affliation heads-up is required if you are pissing on a competitor's product. And in such cases, HN does effective policing. It is also possibly helpful if the commenter is elaborating on product that they are involved in to establish that their input is authoritative. And not to give cause for inflated heads here :) but seriously, if you are seriously interested in this space, you sh/would already know the cast of mvps and thus major contributors such as Russ Cox or Patrick Walton (et al) would not require introductions.