[synnik]

Clearly, since it IS the top comment, HN as a whole disagrees with you.

I believe that discussion about appropriate language and communication styles is very applicable to HN. We're trying to be a better, more insightful discussion board with higher quality than other sites. Better writing is one way to do that, so it seem like a perfect discussion point.

[coderdude]

Nope. Some portion of HN disagrees with me, sure. There are also people who use "this." and who make pun threads. Just because there's some people doing it that doesn't mean it's the right thing to do, that it's right for HN, that it adds to the discussion, or that I'm wrong for not liking it.

Discussion about appropriate language and communication styles is indeed applicable to HN. And when an article about that gets up-voted we're all free to discuss our feelings on the topic.

[lotharbot]

HN community standards treat meta-commentary of this sort as almost always on topic and appropriate.

Since the top comment was insightful and correct, and may be even more valuable than the original article, it's been upvoted.