I fear that if we let complaints about comments, concern about comment quality and long threads going back and forward defending the legitimacy of parody comments in comments, humour, humourless responses and expressions of concern about the complaints dominating the discussion, HN will become boring.
This is the correct attitude. If you disapprove of a comment, down vote it. Dignifying it with a response means one of two things:
1. Your comment is equally worthless, and should be downvoted. Your comment contributes nothing as the original comment contributed nothing. Downvote and move on.
2. Your comment is worthwhile, and therefore, the parent comment is worthwhile as it sparked good conversation and comments.
A comment that complains about a parent comment adds nothing worthwhile to the conversation as a whole. If anything it does nothing more than add clutter.
you guys are right. it was my knee-jerk reaction to a comment i thought was trying to market on microsoft's behalf, and telling how i thought their effort could be improved, but then also not being sure if it was parody or not at the time.
