"Whoa. Way off topic." Maybe not. It's not uncommon here for people, when they encountering a post they disagree with, to offer their interpretation, tossing

"Whoa. Way off topic." Maybe not. It's not uncommon here for people, when they encountering a post they disagree with, to offer their interpretation, tossing in "Read the [article|post|blog|whatever]" as their, um, argument. Sometimes (maybe mostly) this is done as a deliberately smug insult. But other times it seems the poster really believes that there is but one plausible interpretation of something, and that the only way someone could not have the same interpretation would be to have not read to item in question. Either way it fails to improve the discussion because typically it dismissively ignores any accompanying argument.