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by JumpCrisscross 484 days ago
> merely the use of specific “you” in an argument is already considered unnecessary

Not necessarily unnecessary, but necessarily personal.

If I changed the “your” in the top comment to “this,” I think it would better communicate both my issue and reasonable irritation with the comment I was responding to. At the same time there is another commenter in this thread who refused to back down, and at that point a “you’re bordering on trolling” seems appropriate. It is confrontational, but not unnecessarily so.