[Etheryte]

Sidenote: On HN you can often get downvoted/flagged not only for what you say, but for the way you say it. I wouldn't really call it griefing, rather a call for more civil discussion. If an account is new or a throwaway it gets held to this standard even stronger because no one really wants to see a HN that's flooded by throwaway accounts writing Reddit style comments.

[kragen]

The comment in question said, "It's a multi-project wafer not a multi-project chip. They cut the wafer apart into individual chips. There is one project on each chip. This has been going on since the 1970s. It is a very well-understood process." There is absolutely nothing uncivil about that comment, and it clarified that we were talking about slightly different things, thus leading to a resolution of the apparent disagreement and, I think, broader perspective for both of us.

The only even slightly uncivil thing about it would be the implication that I didn't know what MPW was, but in fact that was entirely plausible and would have been an important lacuna to correct were it true.

It was an exemplary comment, and the people who flagged it so that I could not reply were being a pain in the ass for no reason.