"Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community." It's reliably a marker of bad comments and worse threads. Also: "Don't be snarky." (FWIW I don't

"Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community." It's reliably a marker of bad comments and worse threads. Also: "Don't be snarky." (FWIW I don't think you meant to do either of these things, but the worst internet patterns propagate unintentionally.) https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html