HN discussion is a public forum, and you don&#x27;t get to dictate who replies to you. If you don&#x27;t want to talk to me, that&#x27;s up to you. You can simply stop talking to me. I&#x27;ll get bored and wander off and you won&#x27;t see me replying to you. If you don&#x27;t understand what I&#x27;m saying, you can also choose to ask clarification. But I&#x27;m not asking any positive action of you.<p>What I do ask is that if you choose to reply to me, you reply to the things that I actually say. Instead, you repeatedly chose to say things which <i>sounded</i> like replies, but weren&#x27;t. You tried to hide your lack-of-response - first, by talking about something unrelated to what I said, and second, by being all &quot;I don&#x27;t need to talk about what you want to talk about&quot;. Of course you don&#x27;t! But if you&#x27;re not going to talk about it, you don&#x27;t get to pretend you replied to me.