All your points are duly taken! The reason I said this article was trying to "Rally the HN troops" is due to the second sentence of the post: Upvotes on Hac

All your points are duly taken! The reason I said this article was trying to "Rally the HN troops" is due to the second sentence of the post: Upvotes on Hacker News would be greatly appreciated to help me beat Goliath! I took that to be a rallying cry :)