That was the only part of a comment I took issue with and I did “directly address” it. None of the rest of the comments were part of “an argument” and I took no

That was the only part of a comment I took issue with and I did “directly address” it. None of the rest of the comments were part of “an argument” and I took no issue with them; there was nothing else to “address”. Looks like other community members also agreed that you were out of line, judging by the flagged status. It seems that your creative interpretation of the guidelines might need some revision. That includes whether my corrective comment was “snarky” - that comment has received positive karma votes from the community and is not flagged for violating HN commenting guidelines.