[keyist]

Dude, you profess to admiring _why and all, but you're using a thread on his 'estate' to further a personal vendetta against Zed, jumping on the first link to Zed's post with cached vitriol.

You said of _why:

> For all that he had a vibrant personality, his work was never about himself.

Yet in your repeated attempts to have the last word you are making the thread less about _why and more about yourself. A little inconsistent perhaps.

[unalone]

I don't have a Zed vendetta. I haven't mentioned the guy since the last thread about him and _why. That said, I thought a criticism of Zed re: that _why post would be a valid comment, and apparently other people did too.

Normally on HN, that would have been the end of the thread, because there really wasn't much more to talk about. However, Zed decided it was worth not only insulting me here but posting a link to this thread for his thousands of Twitter followers to read and downvote, so this got out of hand.

I'd be happy to take this to email with Zed so we can settle. That's happened a few times with people, and I find it helps us talk things out without the peacocking that goes on when somebody thinks they're in the public eye. But Zed's decided to be obnoxious, and, much as I feel sick even being in this conversation, I don't want to let him rip me apart when he's saying things that are incorrect and immature.

[zedshaw]

Obnoxious? Wow you really are out of touch with yourself. You do realize you called me an idiot, immature, and juvenile right? You consistently insult me behind the guise of fake wisdom and objective observation, but really it's an act so you can insult people like me without getting called out on it.

Your plan actually works pretty well because, while other people here say I should follow the posting guidelines, nobody says you should. Despite the fact that to an educated intellectual such as myself the insult of "idiot" is probably one of the worst you could sling.

[icey]

> Your plan actually works pretty well because, while other people here say I should follow the posting guidelines, nobody says you should.

To be fair, one other person has told you this and has been turned gray for it; I'm sure most people think you can probably fend for yourself just fine.

[mcantelon]

Didn't you initiate the back-and-forth by commenting on a link to a Zed blog post that he's an "idiot"?