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One needn't sympathize with those things to downvote unsubstantive snark on HN.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12649468 and marked it off-topic.

Snark begets snark, dang. I didn't perceive the parent comment to be particularly substantive either.

We'll agree to disagree. Voters seemed to agree with my sentiment after all.

Voters upvote snark routinely. That's a weakness of the voting system, not a sign of quality. HN can't live by upvotes alone.