Yes, of course it's totally fine for people to post their excitement about something like that. It may be a tangent, but it's a specific, interesting tangent, not the generic kind of off-topic discussion which is predictable. Also, there's a huge difference between a community member sharing excitement with fellow users vs. someone showing up just to promote something.

But note that OoTheNigerian's comment eventually became upvoted (hugely upvoted in fact). That community correction often happens when comments are unfairly downvoted—but it takes a little while.

Thanks for the clarification on policy. At the least, I now know that self-deleting a comment that is in the wrong does not stop downvotes/flags.

Hmm, that doesn't sound quite fair. I wonder what we could do better there.

I didn't see the comments that you erased, but based on many things you've posted in the past, I'm sure they were in good faith and driven by concern for the quality of HN, which is something we appreciate even in the rare case of a misfire.

It's not irrelevant.

The person spoke about him using a feature he thought Twitter should have. Tweetstorms.

From far away Nigeria (you may know it as Africa;)) we built something that filled the need and the head of product at twitter using it is the biggest endorsement one can get.

Of course, I could have chosen to be more elaborate in my comment and be like minimaxir but sometimes few words are better.

I am excited and i let it out.

You aren't the author.

I didn't read it as sarcastic and if people were talking about tweetstorms and I found out my tool was used to build it, I'm sure it is not irrelevant to point it out.

You would get my point if you tried building something and had it used.

It seems you have carried on with your monitoring behaviour from Techcrunch comment days.

You can downvote and go in peace but please quit your lecture.

Thanks.

Jeez if a person can't get excited about their own tech project on Hacker News, where can they??

Personally, I found the comment interesting. I have always sort of wondered how prolific Twitter users actually handle the tedium of this, so it's interesting to see a link to one way they do so.