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They could have just been informing you.
We are supposed to take good faith assumptions, right?
OTOH, I feel you with what you wrote. In general the things you wrote are unfortunately common.
Your second sentence about never looking at usernames and so on.
People have befriended either for networking purposes or otherwise, others on HN. It doesn’t have to be a cold straight forward only place
Possibly, and they are free to tell me that; I did ask them what they meant, after all.
They could have just been informing you.
We are supposed to take good faith assumptions, right?
OTOH, I feel you with what you wrote. In general the things you wrote are unfortunately common.
Your second sentence about never looking at usernames and so on.
People have befriended either for networking purposes or otherwise, others on HN. It doesn’t have to be a cold straight forward only place