Please don't rough up other users like that, even when their comments are bad or annoying (or you feel they are). It damages the community more than it helps.
Not that you shouldn't have commented! but please do it with honey not vinegar. Sometimes users don't understand what the intended spirit of the site is yet. Pointing to https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html is always good of course.
I appreciate your sentiment and thank you for the reminder.
It was very difficult for me to avoid getting personal and using ad hominem attacks in this particular case; I tried to temper my gut reaction by using language like "maybe this isn't the community for you" instead of harsher terms.
In reflection, though, it's not my place to judge others like that, or try and police the community. I apologize.
If you consider 600k subscribers to be paltry, perhaps you should focus your efforts on YouTube and leave the Hacker News community.