I don't want to discourage people from playing around with snarky comments, or even from trying to make people feel bad with their hands tied behind their backs

I don't want to discourage people from playing around with snarky comments, or even from trying to make people feel bad with their hands tied behind their backs. It's good for people to challenge themselves in all kinds of creative ways. But this is supposed to be Hacker News. Making hypocritical comments hasn't been newsworthy in a very long time, and I think it's laudable that something like this is at the bottom of the comments page while vastly nicer things (like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8229841 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8229841) revel in the limelight.