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That's an 'attack'? No, that's not an attack, and not even a chiding. It was a clarification. If you're seeing an attack...you are seeing something that is no

• dang 4y ago
  It can be difficult to perceive how a comment will come across on the internet because you (I don't mean you personally—it works this way for all of us) have additional context in your head, such as your intent, the past experiences that have led you to feel or see an issue the way you do, and so on. But you're literally the only person who has that context. If you don't include it explicitly in your text, it remains unavailable to readers. From the perspective of someone just reading the words with none of that context, I can tell you for sure that your GP comment comes across as a personal attack—specifically, as snarky, aggressive, and judgmental, even crossing into mind-reading (telling someone why they did what they did), and all this on a topic that is highly emotional for most people. I believe you that you didn't mean it that way! But that for sure is the likeliest default interpretation of your comment, and since "likeliest default interpretation" is what determines the actual impact of a post on the thread, we have to moderate when we see things like that.