HN commenters being able to say so is everything that's right with HN. This would be correct, if the objection were right. But the commentator was objectively

HN commenters being able to say so is everything that's right with HN. This would be correct, if the objection were right. But the commentator was objectively incorrect, in a way that could have been avoided with something as small as a web search, and the comment had the audacity to do so in a condescending way. I didn't knock anyone who had a genuine objection to the post, I replied to an incredibly low-effort and low-quality comment pointing out that it was low-effort and low-quality. Commenting that a comment is exemplary of all that's wrong with HN is... popular, I'll grant you that, but it grates, and it's not really right. This is the first one I've ever made, and I post pretty frequently. I don't think it's wrong whatsoever, and I'm standing by it. It's a "shut up" argument. It absolutely is a "shut up" argument. Comments should not be written when they can't get the simplest of facts straight, and authors of them should think before they post. No need to disparage commenters. I didn't, I disparaged their comment. I don't think doing so was wrong, either, because the comment was practically equivalent to replying to a well-considered post with a PNG of a meme.