[Retric]

That’s not how things operate here. Note how your complaint isn’t in the guidelines. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

The site encourages people to delete unproductive comments that haven’t been responding to as it improves the reading experiences for 3rd parties. Which is one of the reasons there’s a big old delete button and you can edit posts for a full hour.

Adding “Edit:” is important for clarity when a post has been responded to, without that it’s just clutter.

[MichaelZuo]

I’m not going to substantially engage with you. Period.

[Retric]

You never did meaningfully engage anywhere in the thread.

That’s the issue.

Looking at your posting history, I’m not convinced you’re capable of meaningful dialogue.

[MichaelZuo]

Nobody’s going to trust the word of a proven deceiver… but if you want to burn away your account then I won’t stop you.