I found the articles on the "middlebrow dismissal" insightful. And I don't think ends usually justify means; I think the parent-most comment was not as nice as it should have been.
The parent comment is not so much a put-down as much as it calls out a particularly unsophisticated dismissal. The parent-most comment would have elicited the same useful information if it were phrased as a question, but would have been less uncouth. I think that's a perfectly fine thing to write a comment about.
The parent comment is not so much a put-down as much as it calls out a particularly unsophisticated dismissal. The parent-most comment would have elicited the same useful information if it were phrased as a question, but would have been less uncouth. I think that's a perfectly fine thing to write a comment about.