Such kind of comment is also in very poor taste - it offers very little substance, and mainly aims at going in a roundabout way to belittle the comment it is re

Such kind of comment is also in very poor taste - it offers very little substance, and mainly aims at going in a roundabout way to belittle the comment it is responding to without offering a concrete solid argument against it. And that is even without that contextual information that you've noted.