Correct. Also, this wasn't meant to be a blog post to begin with but HN didn't accept the text as it was and I don't have time to re-write it keeping the essence but making it much shorter.
It annoys me in all your other posts as well. I read essentially everything you write, and it throws me off every time. Sounds cheap and insincere, which is precisely the opposite of the actual stuff you write.
That's the problem with metrics that only measure part of the situation. Maybe having cheap, insincere boilerplate does increase the number of people following through to one's Twitter page, something that is easily measured. But it can't measure the number of people who lose trust in you due to it.
