&gt;<i>You&#x27;re fixating on something which wasn&#x27;t the core thrust of the thread</i><p>Why call it &quot;fixating&quot;, as opposed to merely opting to comment on a raised issue that I find more interesting than the &quot;idiot insults girl at convention&quot;?<p>Doesn&#x27;t commenting on only part of the starting thread (or even bringing up a new point, related to the discussion but not explicitly present) happen naturally like all the time on HN? Because that&#x27;s how conversations go? E.g. &quot;Go 1.5 released -&gt; Still no Generics -&gt; Generics are not needed -&gt;&quot;, that can go all the way to subthreads discussing Oberon, Java, the blub paradox, etc.<p>Besides, the main reason I added a few more comments was because I was called out for commenting on the violence part -- the rest of my comments were meta, belaboring the obvious, that the issue had already been raised.