There are times when sarcastic/combative comments contain sufficiently good material that they are upvoted in spite of their flaws, but I think in this case the

There are times when sarcastic/combative comments contain sufficiently good material that they are upvoted in spite of their flaws, but I think in this case the content was pretty minimal/obvious. The comment by swah https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19522802 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19522802 contains essentially the same content, and it did fine.