[dang]

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[vageli]

> "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

> https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Forgive me but can we not be skeptical of claims made about a commercial product?

[dang]

Of course you can, and there are plenty of ways to do so that don't break the site guidelines. Cheap, snarky one-liners are not the way. If someone's posting about their own work, there's no need to be disrespectful.

It's also not helpful to post such a clichéd dismissal of what someone else says or their work. That's in the site guidelines too.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[isatty]

Isn’t his reply valid and an exception to the rule given the context?