Exactly, and you did allow it to do that on nothing more than an image of a lollipop and endorsement from this community.

Except I didn't. The confirmation page was enough for me to drive home the point.

that seems reasonable to me. if something gets to the top spot on HN, I'd think its worth a try. some other random app? much different story.

Yes but I'm sure many people did... And it wasn't hard to do.