I agree it's an old question, but the idea is to put up an interesting debate on HN, let people know what is the right way of doing things (in this case REST, which is a misunderstood topic).

We, as developers take some pieces of technology as granted, many of us might not understand the real use cases of usage of PUT vs POST.

I don't think HN is meant purely for "fresh news" but a place for meaningful discussions which matter.

PS: This was not a karma collection ploy by me. If I wanted karma I would go to reddit or stackoverflow. Not HN.