Snark, indignation, and drama always get upvoted. That is a bug in human nature, not evidence of comment quality. HN is a site that tries to care about quality and thus is not driven solely by upvotes. Think of it as a constitutional democracy.<p>I said your comment was unsubstantive (not &#x27;unsubstantiated&#x27;) because it didn&#x27;t contain any information, just a snarky putdown of hypothetical other users. Such a comment is merely a status move and those are always uninteresting, despite their popularity.