[robocat]

All good.

To explain: I quickly scanned some of their recent comments to see if my assumptions could be wrong. When I noticed they were Danish, I then wondered if you were American, so I used hn.algolia.com to scan your comments for “American” as a keyword. You said you were, but at that point I luckily noticed the comment of yours that I quoted, which I just couldn’t resist cheekily passing back to you, because it fitted the discussion on comment quality at a meta level</smirk>.

I often write personal notes like this after the topic has dropped from the front page. If there are a lot of people still reading the comment threads, I try harder to not be a distraction to others and I try to keep on topic.

I really do appreciate your effort to keep my comment quality high - if we all do that for many comments (especially through voting) then the whole community benefits. I don’t realise when I get tone wrong. In this case I have been very slightly downvoted on both comments which is not usual for me - so your comment was an extra help.

[eyelidlessness]

FWIW I think “comment quality” is a weird self-policing cargo cult thing here that reflects moderation attitudes more than it reflects basic decency, and I appreciate your candor and openness to critique more than anything else in this discussion. I’m sure you’ll find if you look further through my comments that I think basic decency extends beyond the politeness expected here when they conflict. Regardless thank you for a fruitful conversation!