It reminded me of Dennis Ritchie’s “Anti-Foreword” to The UNIX-HATERS Handbook :-)

It's definitely off-putting. I'm not sure what your mean by not reading it "too literally". Obviously no one thinks the author is speaking literally... It's still reasonable to think the phrasing is gross.

Sometimes the comments are gross.

Sure? I'm not sure how that's relevant...

I'm confused about why folks seem so upset by people expressing this opinion .

Personally, I'm confused about why people insist on dissecting every single sentence in this article and some others like it.

Ok... Do you have any evidence of me (or the OP commenter) doing that? Rachel is one of my favorite tech bloggers, and has been in my RSS feed for years.

At least it's clear that this is just you White-Knighting....

Is it bad form to cricise an article?

What is your criticism exactly? You quoted the article and said simply, "come on".

IMO this is only validating the criticism the article levels at comment sections like HN's. You have picked out some random sentence and expressed no more than idle disagreement. Maybe I personally wouldn't compare your comment to a turd, but there's not a whole lot of nutritional value in it either.

Perhaps the reason the article expresses this concern in this specific way is because it is warranted. Because people insist on disassembling articles coming from this domain sentence by sentence and posting comments that really don't say anything helpful or sometimes anything at all.

Do I really need to spell out why that phrasing is

1. unpallatable 2. indiscriminantly rude towards an entire community?

> Because people insist on disassembling articles coming from this domain sentence by sentence

I feel like I may have walked into something where I don't have much context. I'm not sure what you mean by that.

Also, I find it strange people are so fixated on my criticism, and nobody has commented anything about the praise I made in the very same post.