I don't think they were trying to be mean although it might sound that way depending on how it's interpreted. No one is telling you to silence yourself.
Your input is appreciated (whether u believe that or not).
You have to understand it's very nervewracking when many people in your M4 class applying to other fields -- IM, Peds, Path, Rads, PM&R, Psych, General Surgery, Anesthesiology, etc. will be getting interviews left and right from the moment the floodgate opens (and will be talking about it out loud as well). It's hard as a Derm applicant to then have them ask you how the interview season is going and you can count the number of Derm interviews on one hand. Deficiences in your application can be magnified by you - bc someone else had one more publication, or was AOA, etc. Weeks pass, and then you start doubting yourself. The invite thread at least gives you some semblance of an idea whether invites have been given already or not - it's a valuable resource, but can also be a double edged sword.
It's really hard to explain it well for you to undestand, but you'll understand soon enough when you're checking compulsively next year as well, and you'll know exactly what we are talking about. Who knows maybe you'll be lucky and have interviews out the wazoo that you know more than what to do with. Then you can tell us what fools we are for freaking out. lol.