Yes, most agree with this. Before there was google it was called RTFM. And of course everybody can do what they want. There won&#x27;t be an exam tomorrow of how many people have read my comment and got to the conclusion that yes, to provide value to the community it&#x27;s a smart thing to find out what the community has produced first, and distinguish your addition.<p>Could you say the author didn&#x27;t care about what he adds to the community? Sure you could. But then one had to wonder why he added his project to HN or wrote a Readme in the first place.