Your paragraph was a lot more annoying than his sentence.
It's true that such comments are annoying, but they're necessary as a feedback mechanism to regulate the site. Otherwise the site guidelines would have negligible effect.
They're more tedious to write than to read, if that helps at all.
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html