The most insightful part is probably the 2nd to last paragraph of dang’s 2nd comment (the very long one) about trying to disambiguate your own intention in writ

The most insightful part is probably the 2nd to last paragraph of dang’s 2nd comment (the very long one) about trying to disambiguate your own intention in writing. However, it’s not particularly easy to always disambiguate your intention in writing a comment. Writing too long of a comment and saying the same things multiple time just ends up with people skipping the latter part and arguing with you anyway. So I guess there should be the other half of the equation: if you can’t be bother to try to assume the commenter is talking in good faith, and spending (may be tens of minutes) understanding him, then just walk away and don’t flame back :-) Asking sincere questions or making naive point is always suspiciously similar to being sarcasm or disingenuous, but when I don’t know something, I really can’t do better wording.