My problem with posts like that isn't that they're insensitive or whatever, it's that they're noise. I come to HN to escape the drivel that reddit's tech/programming subreddits have become due to comments like that outnumbering meaningful discussion.
>My problem with posts like that isn't that they're insensitive or whatever, it's that they're noise.
We're in perfect agreement about this, hence "downvote the joke you don't like and move on with your life".
Multi-paragraph reprimands are adding to the noise. And more to the point: the parent comment wasn't complaining about noise but rather adopting a nauseatingly moralizing posture.
