Pardon me if it was asked earlier.<p>Just wondering, why don't we have an option to direct message someone in HN? Is there a philosophical reason behind it or in general HN users will dislike it?
Feature creep? HN is a news aggregator not a social network; if you want to contact someone and they haven't posted contact information in their profile then they don't want to be contacted.<p>And if they do want to be contacted, there are better tools than a lossy web-based email-style replacement shim, which is what most other sites end up having.