Please use absolute references (a link to the specific answer) instead of fuzzy references that change over time.
Currently, your answer is the top-rated, so which one did you mean? (And even if your answer was not at the top, the top will almost certainly change over time, leading to all kinds of misunderstandings.)
EDIT: It seems that this referred to the top-rated answer on MO, not HN:
This demonstrates my point even more: Please use absolute references, as fuzzy references make for misunderstandings! (And as my comment received quit a lot of upvotes in the beginning, I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who thought this was about the top-rated HN answer.)
I took their post to be referring to the top reply on the math exchange site, which may actually be a stable thing at this point as the question is not fresh. I may be wrong though.
Humans are strange. Perhaps, though it's not certain, if your original comment were couched as a softer request, then that softer approach might not pique certain small subsets so much?
Please use absolute references (a link to the specific answer) instead of fuzzy references that change over time.
Currently, your answer is the top-rated, so which one did you mean? (And even if your answer was not at the top, the top will almost certainly change over time, leading to all kinds of misunderstandings.)
EDIT: It seems that this referred to the top-rated answer on MO, not HN:
https://mathoverflow.net/a/13149/66043
This demonstrates my point even more: Please use absolute references, as fuzzy references make for misunderstandings! (And as my comment received quit a lot of upvotes in the beginning, I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who thought this was about the top-rated HN answer.)