You are right and you are being down voted for speaking the truth.
I definitely periodically fall into these discussions and need to train myself out of them. Thanks for the cycle escape.
If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
But I don't project that unto others.