I dunno. My comment complained about the parent comment not adding positively to the discussion. And gave at least a bit of support for that complaint.

Would you have preferred I emulate your style, and complain while providing no support for my complaint?

Ok.

Being positive is not a requirement of commenting on HN, but you should comment with something that is substantive, so yes I do think you shouldn't have commented at all. Tone policing is cringe.

I don't like tone-policing in general. But when I opened this post the negative comment we're talking about was the top comment. That's makes me much more sympathetic to someone calling out the cynicism.

Exactly what are you doing here then?

But hey I guess I can do this too. How's this? Using cringe as an adjective is cringe.

> But hey I guess I can do this too.

It sucks, doesn't it?