I don&#x27;t think so. I&#x27;m being generous in the sense that I&#x27;m open to multiple interpretations of what happened and I&#x27;m going out of my way to not assume (and to express that I do not assume) that you were being intentionally unpleasant. I&#x27;m happy to interpret it as an error.<p>But I still want to express that I think your top comment was unpleasant, regardless of how unhappy it makes you to hear that (which is apparently a lot).<p>Sure, you can tell me I shouldn&#x27;t bother saying any of this, but I&#x27;m not really doing it for you; I want other Hacker News comment-browsers to be reminded not to do unpleasant things like that, and about how exactly they&#x27;re unpleasant, and to do that I have to write something that&#x27;s pretty much going to piss you off regardless of how I phrase it.