Comment by wpietri

Your theory was unclear. Don't get cranky when people do their best to interpret your lack of clarity.

I did not say my job is dealing with abusive comments. If it were, your theory would still make no sense; being a professional judge of content makes you better at evaluating content, not worse. Some jokes are considered bad comments here, many aren't. Which is irrelevant, because the comment you're grumping about was not a joke.

And I will note that you carefully dodged the heart of my point, which is that you are confusing your personal preferences with objective standards. And although you've quibbled in the neighborhood of the point quite a bit, you haven't addressed the ridiculous notion that these "are some of the worst kind of comments".

If you'd like to complain about bad HN comments, I'd say being querulous is not great, and then carefully avoiding dealing with substantive criticism is well worse.