Is the "self-serving" comment due to the author taking something small or possibly insignificant and over analyzing it to hear himself talk? If no, I'm sorry, t

Is the "self-serving" comment due to the author taking something small or possibly insignificant and over analyzing it to hear himself talk? If no, I'm sorry, that's not necessarily my opinion on this issue. Though there seems to be a fair amount of stuff on HN at times that is super short blog posts about, IMO, clearly obvious things. "Allow users to share" on a social networking site. Gotcha. I don't know, I may be completely off base here.