Please keep this reddit-tier lack of contribution to the discussion on, well, reddit. It's bad enough that discussion over there is flooded with puns, song lyrics and people calling everything wholesome, do we really need to drag every discussion forum on the internet down to that level?
Comments like this that spew negativity don't make HN a particularly inviting place either. Remember there's a human sitting on the other end.
All internet "forums" have a human sitting at the other end, why do you feel the need to mention there's a human sitting on the other end? GP wasn't really "spewing negativity", just discouraging a certain culture of discussion that is genuinely bad (and uncommon) for HN.
What is "genuinely bad" is debatable. I disagree in this particular instance.