Because the number of people who believe that arrays are pointers vastly outnumbers those who don't, and many of those clueless n00bs have karma >= 500 on HN, or whatever the level is to be able to downvote. Judging by one answer, some people don't believe that the comment could even be about C, so wrong it must be!

Nope; I simply refuse to delete a comment that is civil and correct just because of some fluffy downvotes. It stays and that's that.