[rabbitonrails]

Why is it against the community guidelines to point out bad writing?

[dang]

It isn't.

[rabbitonrails]

So what, you’re upset about the way I’m expressing my response to the writing? Exercising censure on my censure, as it were.

[dang]

That's closer. We don't want snark here because it's much less interesting than it feels and because it makes the community nasty. Since that's the default outcome for internet forums, it takes conscious effort to cultivate the opposite.