Sarcasm can be very valuable. It can also be used to contemptuously insult someone when a simple rebuttal would suffice. The latter is an immature, weak intell

Sarcasm can be very valuable. It can also be used to contemptuously insult someone when a simple rebuttal would suffice. The latter is an immature, weak intellectual position (see Appeal to Ridicule and Question Begging Epithet) that says nothing more than "you are so wrong as to look asinine". This only fosters more emotional, insult-riddled dialogue, which is why the user above quoted HN guidelines, which you are now impotently raging against. This is a pretty civil place, we like to keep it that way.