The comment bothers me beyond just the use of hashtag. You are mixing the ideologies of a person along with a company which to me is not very intelligent. While he may be the face of a company and direct their strategy he is ultimately answering to the shareholders. What he does in his personal life is mostly irrelevant as long as Apple is profitable.

Adding the hashtag at the end of what you are trying to communicate puts salt on the wound as lyke w tottally cud write like whateves and you'd understand but lyke its not cool, ya know? #whatisdecorum

> Why is it bothering you?

I'm not the OP, but it bothered me too. It goes against HN's general discussion style.

It's also quoted, which seems okay to me.

I was referencing vayarajesh's comment, not hnnewguy's.

> It goes against HN's general discussion style

What? The use of terminology specific to social media?

1 - HN is social media.

2 - 'OP' is a term as associated with social media of a certain nature as the use of '#'

To be fair, hash-tags are used to categorize and group content on social media. HN does not implement this functionality. Essentially, the '#' serves no purpose on HN. Therefore, it is easy to see why people get bothered by it.

It was in quotes. It was clearly meant to characterise a certain type of commenter, rather than serve a categorical function.

Are you serious? Look at vayarajesh's original comment.

It 'clearly' states this: It makes me fall in love with Apple more. #Respect

No quotes. He/She was using it seriously.

Actually, it was first used without any support from twitter, then transformed into a tag-like functionality

Same with retweets.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashtag#Origin_and_Use

OP is a term that's been used thousands of times in discussions posted on HN, the same can't be said of hashtags.

#998moretogo

Not to be pedantic but he did say he was a pedant

A "pendant", actually. Which amuses me to no end.