> Your original comment wasn't very clear and I misinterpreted it, sorry. Yeah, there's some tension between risk of being seen as condescending and making sur

> Your original comment wasn't very clear and I misinterpreted it, sorry. Yeah, there's some tension between risk of being seen as condescending and making sure everything is sufficiently clear. In a low-stakes context like this (and outside of clarifications or responses to ELI5 requests) I try not to fill in all the gaps - when it goes well it leaves us all feeling a little smarter and when it goes wrong it occasionally leads somewhere interesting. The increased risk of misinterpretation was made even worse here by the priming of several other people making the point I wasn't.