True, it is off topic to the postmortem. However, the top comment talks about wanting to work there. I get is is very relevant to see a bigger picture. Personally, I could never work for them. I have a kid and the services and culture they created around their product is sickening and should be made illegal.

Even so, if you're responding to the "wanting to work there" you could do so in a less snide manner that's more in line with HN's guidelines on constructive commenting.

You’ve pretty much articulated for me why I’ve been commenting on Reddit less and less frequently.

I loathe the constant riffing on <related and yet nothing indicates it is actually related/> topics.

Sadly it is happening here on HN too, < insert the next blurb about corporatism/>

Guess we need to find the next space lol

Took long enough to find this place.

While I personally think digitalengineer's comment was low-effort and knee-jerk, I think this general thread of discussion is on topic for the comment replied to, which was specifically about how the postmortem increased the commenter's respect for Roblox as a company and made them want to work there. I think an acceptable compromise between "ethical considerations drown out any technical discussion" and "any non-technical discussion gets downvoted/flagged to oblivion" would be to quarantine comments about the ethics of Roblox's business model to a single thread of discussion, and this one seems as good as any.

The guidelines and zillions of moderation comments are pretty explicit that doesn't count as 'on topic'. You can always hang some rage-subthread off the unrelated perfidy, real or perceived, of some entity or another. This one is extra tenuous and forced given that 'the type of company I'd want to work for' is a generic expression of approval/admiration.

You can get to a sane place just by mentally substituting "engineering team" for the word "company" in the original comment.