What the link I'd shared stated was "Please edit out swipes, as the site guidelines ask".

It also states "Your comment would be fine without that ... bit."

I frequently address poorly-founded comments myself. Just did immediately before this reply, see: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49064763> (

I'm doing so both staying within the guidelines and specifically calling out the idiocy displayed, though without relying on that particular word.

Calling out Guidelines violations does not imply disagreement with what's been said otherwise. It is a call for more substantive participation, and probably strengthening your own arguments.

You've been here long enough that all of this should be quite familiar to you.

(I'm not a mod, which is why I'd initially linked a mod's own admonition.)