"Please don't sign comments; they're already signed with your username. If other users want to learn more about you, they can click on it to see your profile. "
Applies to job title, too. Yes, even at companies who are special enough to get millions of dollars from VCs.
Every rule has its exceptions. Sometimes it's nice to be able to quickly verify that the person answering a very specific comment about a specific company works at that company by avoiding the initial confusion or having to click anything. Let's not be overscrupulous.
I think it's important to take the bigger picture into account here. Letting us know who she is was a key part of that comment, since it's immediately relevant to the content.
Applies to job title, too. Yes, even at companies who are special enough to get millions of dollars from VCs.
source: "In Comments" https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html