OP didn't say you didn't read it. They said that you didn't read it AND attempt to start a meaningful discussion about it, which exactly what you were complaining about, right?
If you mean meaningful with regards to the topic, I'd agree with you and knew it from the start, hence the "off-topic" warning.
My intention was to confront my experience and behavior (towards certain categories of posts of high upvotes/comment ratio) with the rest of the HN crowd, in a contextualized environment where it applies.
I'm sorry that the conversation now revolves around my own comment. Kinda ironic.
The honeycomb-dot-io case was bad, I attended their conference once and it was like I'd been suckered into a neverending timeshare sales tour. Thankfully I haven't noticed the domain on the frontpage lately.
Both look like they want to game HN pretty hard. If only they'd publish actual novel or interesting information instead of thinly veiled SaaS marketing!
How shocking is it that, on some article and topic, I do not have a comment I deem interesting enough to share?
Besides, if you do not appreciate my specificly off-topic contribution, then so be it.