I was only stating an alternative, possibly common, misinterpretation. It makes no sense to argue that the misinterpretation is wrong, only whether people do or

I was only stating an alternative, possibly common, misinterpretation. It makes no sense to argue that the misinterpretation is wrong, only whether people do or don't, of which we only have our two samples. HN and time+votes aggregators in general are inherently timely.