Come on, if you respond to a comment then expand on it to explain why you made it, hiding behind it being “borderline off-topic” and an “offhand observation” feels disingenuous. Can you understand that?

Here’s a silly example: Imagine you had made a comment about something different on a different thread. Then someone responds to you by saying “borderline off-topic, but I find some comments on HN about this subject to be really stupid”. Would you not be justified in thinking that the comment responding to yours was a response to you?

Maybe you really did mean nothing by it, but are you able to understand how every choice you made contradicts that, even if inadvertently?

> Anyway, clearly a fruitless conversation to continue

Are you also able to understand how this type of high-ground dismissal makes it worse?

> Hope you enjoy the rest of your Saturday

Thank you. You too. Genuinely.