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Please don't isolate the most flamebaity bit of a comment and then respond to that. It paves the way for full flamewar below. We're all responsible for fire safety here.

In a way you can think of this as a variant of the site guideline which asks:

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize."

It's not what we originally had in mind when we added it, but "strongest plausible" can be taken to include "least flame-prone".

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html