Why? At the time of this comment (and -according to the timestamp-, the time of your comment), the title was 'Dear "Dear Github"', and the ___domain that hosted the article was listed as juliandunn.net.
I... can't imagine that any reasonable person would draw from these two facts that this was a GitHub employee writing in any official capacity.
> There is at least one thread where there's already been confusion around it.
It's impossible to prevent everyone from getting confused. What's more, it appears that purple_haze's confusion didn't materially alter what they had to say.
> At first, I thought this would be from someone who worked at GitHub, because I didn't understand why else it got upvoted.
I guess it got upvoted because people liked what it said and/or thought it contributed to the ongoing discussion here on HN. We're generally not too terribly authoritarian and/or credentialist around here.
