Lol. I lurk on Hacker News. I am not a U.S. government employee.
I just felt compelled to state what I thought was missing from the conversation.
The issue isn’t about you per se. it’s about what HN promotes. Since we can’t see comment karma anymore, we usually can’t tell.
But your case gives us a window into that. 28 karma from 3 comments, none of them grey, puts a really low ceiling on the karma this comment has.
Again, nothing against you personally.