I meant no real insult. I was having a shallow conversation with a troll, I was repeating something someone else said, and misjudged the tone.
You want me to delete/edit my previous post? there, I did; I'm not sure if that's more appropriate or less.
You make a good point with the guidelines; I'm far too cynical and negative to participate in these sorts of discussions with this sort of a community.
http://blog.ycombinator.com/new-hacker-news-guideline