[dang]

Please make your substantive points without snark. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

[madars]

That's not snark, that's just taking their argument to its logical conclusion. Big difference.

[dang]

Of course people understand a term like 'snark' in different ways, so in that sense your point is fine.

But the comment was clearly using sarcasm as an internet hammer, which is what that guideline is asking people not to do. It's bad for curious conversation, which is what we want here.