Different registers of english are an interesting conversational issue. Your phrasing read to me as being close to passive aggressive, but had I been the autho

Different registers of english are an interesting conversational issue. Your phrasing read to me as being close to passive aggressive, but had I been the author of the top level post you were replying to I would have assumed good faith too. My most common failure mode in HN comments is coming across as more combative than I intended because I tend towards blunt in my communication style. If you look at my comments, you'll note quite a few have a disclaimer in a parenthetical at the end to try and avoid that happening. Whether or not adopting a similar approach would be remotely useful to you, I genuinely have no idea.