Actually, I found this enlightening. It didn’t reduce the signal to noise ratio in any way.

The comment would have been no less enlightening if just linked. Additionally, this whole thing is just made of pure noise - someone's taking some sort of bizarre victory lap over some slight they feel HN inflicted upon them... 10 years ago.

I’ve thought about it, and you are probably mostly roght, though I don’t think the poster was trying to take a “victory lap around anyone.