We've gone far off the topic now, but I hope we can come back to it someday. "I've never heard from any of you on this forum until recently" I've been an HN u

We've gone far off the topic now, but I hope we can come back to it someday. "I've never heard from any of you on this forum until recently" I've been an HN user under this handle since it was called "Startup News", and I've seen your username here and there for years. For what it's worth, I'm a longtime HN user and I care about what goes on here. I can't help that you think it's "insidious". If you look at my comments I often also mention that I work for FB explicitly. Honestly it gets tiresome, and I feel as though it can hurt what I'm saying as much as it helps, as it can come across as boosterism. I really am spending an afternoon on the couch reading these things, because blooms of posts often occur after feature launches. I care what people think, and I don't always agree with the things we launch, and there are often very insightful critiques, eg randomwalker. No one asks me to do it. If someone makes a claim about, say, security or ads, I might ping a friend who knows more about that area. We're not omniscient. I prefer hearing from real people than PR-pasturized stuff two days later. But now you're giving me stick for doing even that. What would you prefer? No response at all?