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From the HN guidelines:

"Please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills."

Yes, I can see that your account was created in 2011 :)

I'm aware of that guideline which is why I didn't say that exactly.

Regardless, I don't think silent downvotes really cut it anymore either - nowadays I tend to run out of them after reading only a couple submissions with active comment threads.

Seems like proper application of the downvote button is called for.

I did apply it, and this is my explanation of why, which is proper etiquette.

I think one-offs like this are ok, and I'd like to think mine was a step above "low-effort" ;) Besides, check out the discussion it spawned!

It's those long chains that end up being an out-of-order recital of some famous TV/movie scene that really irk me, personally. Those and similar are cases where the value is only in recognizing the source and getting that dopamine hit, and not in any further contribution to the discussion.