I never thought that. YC applications take hn handles. People have karma they are trying to protect. It is entirely possible that someone with high karma or some other motive would want to say something and not have it tied to them whether it be their HN identity or real identity (for those with links to a website in their profile). An anonymous comment. PG is "the boss" in more ways than one to the HN community.

A similar situation happened the other day. There was a thread about race and somebody commented that none of the "leaders" had anything to say. I wonder why that was?

While apparently this is not what you did, the fact is, it wasn't a stretch to think that is what had happened.

I wasn't disagreeing with what you were saying by the way.