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I wrote an erroneous comment in haste, which I regret. However, this kind of thing happens countless times every day on HN. It's not unusual. Except perhaps the regret part: unlike me, many of those other commenters admit no error and express no regret.

If you truly cared about HN etiquette as much as you claim, you wouldn't post haughty hyperbole such as "Consider this: just stop being reckless" and "The person you're responding to has a habit of posting implausible-but-plausibly-plausible nonsense," which go against the HN guidelines, as you may already know. Be honest: do you actually care about the thread? Why would you care, when you ridiculed my top-level comment? Who are you trying to save the thread for, posterity? Nobody cares. The thread had already been downvoted to the bottom of the submission, and the top-level comment was misinformation, so I removed it, because no more people needed to read the misinformation or respond to it. Nothing of value was lost, and I thought my action was prudent, but in any case, the term "reckless" makes a mountain out of a molehill.

My impression is that you made a bigger deal out of this than is warranted because you appear to have some kind of strange, unexplained, preexisting grudge against me and take any minor fault as an excuse to bash me personally. I have no objection to correcting a falsehood, but please keep your personal feelings to yourself and the personal attacks out of the comments.