It feels shameful when you see it directed at others, but then if you post your own stuff you don't want the feeling that the community is pulling punches just to play nice.

Fortunately most of these things are open source, so there's always the 'well submit a PR' response. It's been so long since I slung HTML that I am fairly certain if I attempted it for a Show HN, folks would be so distracted by how bad it is they wouldn't pay attention to the utility of it.