It just says that I talk for reasons different than those the guideline authors would prefer to motivate people to comment. In this case I was having a specific

It just says that I talk for reasons different than those the guideline authors would prefer to motivate people to comment. In this case I was having a specific emotional/rational reaction, which I was sure other people were also having, and wanted to start a discussion around that tangent. I'm not sure that your conclusion follows, either. How are my standards poor? And how would that render all advice and commentary worthless? Suppose -- to reduce your claim to absurdity -- that I had posted a proof that P == NP. It would have been totally irrelevant to the thread, but hardly worthless.