I was attacked. The following comment: > You're a hypocrite. (-rogered) I responded to that comment twice. First, defending myself as not having made hypocrit

I was attacked. The following comment: > You're a hypocrite. (-rogered) I responded to that comment twice. First, defending myself as not having made hypocritical comments. Then, somewhat "regretting" that, I made a second comment pointing out that I regretted flaming but that I had been attacked and was merely defending myself. So at the point of making that second comment, where I said I was attacked, I was actually referring to the immediate parent, the one I quote above, not the original comments by DanBC. At least, I think that's right. Anyway, I appreciate the advice, and I did indeed walk away (actually, I did it before your comment---I made a comment stating as much). I comment less and less on HN. edit: This conversation has been disconnected by the mods from the original thread, otherwise I wouldn't be willing to clutter up the thread with this mess. Also, that I'm still getting downvoted on a thread that is disconnected perhaps supports my slight suspicion that I get auto-downvoted by a bot whenever I post. --- edit: here is my response to the below comment which I found, only after writing it, I could not post, due to being rate limited. I'm pretty surprised by your comment here. I wasn't crabbing at you or trying to argue. You said I hadn't been attacked, which was mistaken (an entire comment only consistent of "You are a hypocrite,") and I poited out your mistake. I told you I appreciated your advice. I pointed out that this kind of meta-conversation is only acceptable to me because it has been disconnected from the main thread, and by that I was trying to demonstrate that I am trying to behave ethically. In other words, I'm trying to say "I don't want to keep flaiming the issue, but I think it's OK to have this out-of-band conversaiton." So what is your problem? > "I don't agree but I am not going to argue it" instead of deleting your comment is still arguing it. I don't agree with this. The comment I was responding to said: > Your "rational argument" amounted to "people are stupid, fuck 'em." And that is a malignant distortion of what I said. I think it's fine for me to state that, while I'm not going to offer a rebuttal, I don't agree that it is accurate. tl;dr your aggression here is unwarranted. You come in supposedly offering "wisdom" and trying to help and you just become aggressive when I take you up on that and actually try to talk to you. Giving you the benefit of the doubt, I guess the sentiment of what I was saying to you didn't come across.