I flagged this, but I feel I should explain why. We're lucky enough to have folks like Matt (and other influential figures from a wide selection of companies)

I flagged this, but I feel I should explain why. We're lucky enough to have folks like Matt (and other influential figures from a wide selection of companies) participating day-to-day in this community. They engage us directly on matters of policy and current news as it pertains to their organizations, and we give them valuable feedback and insight from outside; it's a symbiotic arrangement. Now, put yourself in Matt's shoes, and think about how you'd feel if posts like this, requesting some particular feature for a Google product or reporting some bug or another, became regular. Would you continue to participate, or would you sense that the usefulness of the relationship had shifted a bit too much away from you? (I imagine being a geek/startup celebrity here on HN is what it must feel like to be a well-known VC at a mixer in San Francisco. Oh, what it must be like being pg... ;-)