> it's against the rules here to those kinds of fake quotes.
What part of the guidelines are you referring to?
Also, despite the quotation marks, I don't think they mean to quote you. They're just rephrasing you as they understood you.
Coincidentally enough, I've just done that too in another comment:
<https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=13602947>
And I didn't mention the guidelines (i.e. newsguidelines.html). On that note, though:
> the site guidelines[...] aren't a list of proscribed behaviors but a set of values to internalize. I'd say "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize" covers this case pretty squarely
(from <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15892014#15893789>)
See also:
<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38688831#38690517>
plus lots (and lots) more.
Aside from that, it's against the rules here to those kinds of fake quotes. (And even if it weren't against the rules, it's obnoxious and disingenuous on its own, so just, like, you know... don't do it.)