[dang]

Can you please stop posting in the cross-examining, flamewar style? It's not what this site is for. We want people to learn from each other here.

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

[almostgotcaught]

what exactly is the acceptable style of discourse here then? purely exultant tropes and clickbait i guess.

[dang]

Does https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html not answer that?

There are plenty of acceptable styles. The guidelines don't insist on only one style.