HN's dupe finder isn't perfect and it has no sections, so rather than having new submissions I thought it'd be better to reuse existing entries. That said, I can see how my comment may appear as it did to you, but that wasn't my intention. Maybe I should have deep-linked.
On HN the convention is to link to previous submissions if there's interesting discussion there, but not otherwise. We allow reposts as a way of giving interesting stories multiple chances at attention—otherwise most interesting stories would be sunk by randomness, making this place less interesting.
(And thanks for responding to a provocative comment with exemplary civility!)
