[yaok]

His comment was perfectly clear, enjoyable, valuable, relevant, and came with a link to a great article.

The fact that you're insulting him for his valuable and interesting contribution is an outrage. Why don't you go pick on someone else, someone who doesn't contribute, who doesn't post great links, who doesn't have an entertaining style.

Not everyone has to be a robotic autistic technical writer on this casual internet forum.

Posts should be judged by their content and style. Your nerdy hatred toward the colloquial /s tag comes off as dry, dweebish, vindictive pedantry.

I'm aware that you represent the HN Zeitgeist to some extent but that pretty much just exemplifies the problem here. You're engaging in the "automatic middle brow dismissal" that pg has identified as majorly obnoxious.

You think sarcasm tags are "too urban" for HN. How fucking classy of you. /s

[jrockway]

I really appreciate the critique from someone who's had an account for two days. The personal attacks were an added plus. And, I like how you didn't actually read any of the thread you're replying to.

Nice work. A+, would read again!

(See how I wrote a sarcastic post without needing a "/s" tag? The written word is pretty cool!)