You should make that obvious in some way like using “TLDR”. I assume many people, like me, would attempt to parse your comment as a comment on the article, after all it’s in the comment section, and read that way it’s very confusing lol.

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emctech 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Sorry, this is my first post to HN and in the submission it looked like the description text i added would be part of the post header.

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40four 29 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Don’t apologize. This was a very fascinating read, and a good technical write up, especially for you first even HN post. It’s not your fault others didn’t look at the username :)

	▲	emctech 8 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Thanks for the feedback :D

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lxgr an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I was just about to highlight this particular HN quirk. I suppose a lot of people here only ever comment (or submit URLs without any text of their own) and aren't familiar with it.

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chrisjj 38 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

HN's fault entirely. The post form is a misrep.

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40four 32 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

They shouldn’t have to make it “obvious”. They are the actual author of the article. It’s not their fault you didn’t double check the usernames. It’s not uncommon for authors to comment on their own articles.