This post has been downvoted because it is not relevant to the discussion started by the OP. Instead it addresses a minor detail found within that OP. Also, bec

This post has been downvoted because it is not relevant to the discussion started by the OP. Instead it addresses a minor detail found within that OP. Also, because it is so long and also discusses your relationship to the HN site moderators, it is very much off-topic. Had you discussed the suitability of G+ for academic discourse or reasons why it is facilitating such discussion among CS researchers, then it would not have been downvoted.