The expression "[...] is win" is decidedly not win.

Languages evolve and living languages change. Speaking or writing in a particular way is one of the fundamental techniques humans use to associate themselves with a culture, society, or any other term for 'group of people'. Criticising someone for their cultural membership is not acceptable here nor should it be acceptable elsewhere. How we talk and write is a tool to define who we are or who we want to be.

You may be trying to suggest that the grandparent post adds nothing to the discussion but that is not what you did. You criticised the grandparent for their association with an internet subculture's vernacular. Criticise the comment, not the parlance it is delivered in.

I lived through my teenage years when everyone was saying "Not!" all the time, and I did not let that stick in my vocabulary. As a surly old-timer in training, I reserve the right to complain about any slang anybody uses, and win/fail as adjectives definitely are topping my list these days.

Maybe if we ridicule them enough they'll move on to more clever slang, or at least more obscure slang so that I no longer understand it enough for it to annoy me.

On the internet, language is the new fashion, and that guy is so last season.

He's streets behind!

I'm sorry that you dislike my slang. It is true, I could have elucidated my thoughts at length, using ancient and time-honored words with many syllables.

But I was pointing out something I found humorous in a joke checklist.

Win-expressions are a standard part of common Leet.

This.

<--- ducks

And the Hacker News elite rewards my poor joke with swift punishment.

> You have reinvented PHP better, but that's still no justification

This says it all right here.