[SanderSantema]

I was interested what the exact meaning of a “Middlebrow dismissal” is (non-native speaker). But I could only find the following in the HN guidelines which doesn’t seem to mention middlebrow dismissals nor does it seem to be applicable to the toplevel comment:

“Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something”

What exactly is a “middlebrow dismissal” and why would the toplevel comment be that?

[warent]

I'm a native English speaker and can take a stab here. Lowbrow typically means unsophisticated (as in, like a neanderthal or ape) whereas highbrow means sophisticated. I'm assuming middlebrow means, well, something in the middle.

All of that being said, the "middlebrow dismissal" observation/criticism makes zero sense to me here.

[csa]

I think this link answers it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5072224

This is pretty good, too:

http://www.byrnehobart.com/blog/why-are-middlebrow-dismissal...

[ACow_Adonis]

I'm a native speaker and I've got no idea what he's saying. honestly I thought the guy made it up to try to sound cool...

I also assumed given that it was a green account and a one line response that it would be downvoted and marked as spam.