I didn't mean it literally, my apologies if it came across this way.

I mean the response to nearly everything on this site could be described as "generally dismissive". So the responses are not odd, they are totally normal HN responses.

in fairness most of his points were probably accumulated before the poster joined the site.

I'm fairly certain he was just making a joke about HN and not a literal comment to the OP.

I use uBlock to remove all gamification from websites that I use, so I'm blissfully unaware of how many points any of us have. I'd rather judge comments myself than react to other people's reactions.