It was a counterpoint to his sneer, I felt like it was a productive re-contextualization of their narrow viewpoint. I am really surprised people seem to be missing the parent comments snark but not mine, it was really on the nose.

I was sincerely not trying to be snarky. I'm sorry you took it that way. I am actually GenX, so I know all too well what it was like back in the days of paper maps and pay phones. I couldn't imagine going back as they seem barbaric now.

Ah, my sincerest apologies. I guess it was hard for me to see it through any other lens, I was very much expecting a technophile versus traditionalist discourse to break out in this thread and so I was primed to read your words just one way. I even re-read your comment after others were discussing mine to make sure I wasn't being an idiot and was still certain. I suppose I was being an idiot!

Sorry again, I shouldn't have been snarky in either case, I was just so darn ready to have that discussion.

Thanks for the apology ehnto. My OP should have been more clear in its intent.

If you see someone sneering, then request them not to sneer. Link them to the HN guidelines. Counter-sneering ruins the discussion.

If you're not dang, isn't linking to the guidelines against the guidelines?

Does it say so in the guidelines?

why would it be?

because it serves no real purpose except to make the person doing the referencing feel a bit smug