[jspthrowaway2]

Wait, you didn't realize it was the same person, but you said "I guess you're going to avoid me" since he didn't bite at your first confrontation? That doesn't add up.

I don't follow you around. Don't flatter yourself. You just contribute to a lot of threads (I'm hesitant to use the word contribute in this case). I didn't even realize I was replying to you until the end, when I added the last two sentences, and I would have said the same thing up until then to anybody.

You have a bit of a victim complex. I wasn't even harassing you.

[drivebyacct2]

Is that 4 accounts that have been hell banned now, Jed? You can call me "troll" all you want and bang away at that downvote arrow.

[jspthrowaway2]

Actually, I switch accounts when my karma gets too high, so I keep perspective and don't make "a name" for myself in the Hacker News comments. This one is due. I was hellbanned on jspthrowaway, I believe, for something on a thread regarding Gittip and it's not that important to me anyway. If I deserve a hellban, I deserve a hellban.

Just relax, I'm trying to be nice to you this time around and point out how you're being needlessly confrontational, which makes it sad that you're being needlessly confrontational with me in response.

I don't have it out for you, guy. I'm being entirely honest with you when I say that my response was completely user-agnostic until I looked at the username and put two and two together. The points talking to you directly were an edit, not in the initial comment. My time is a smidge too valuable to "stalk" you around Hacker News, harassing you at every whim, and it's awfully presumptuous to assume I do. That's just silly. If I had known you were going to react like this, I probably wouldn't have said anything.

I'm not hiding my identity, either, so congratulations on knowing it, I'd just prefer to not directly tie my identity to everything that I say here. It gives me a bit more freedom to be honest in cases that would otherwise hurt me indirectly. If I'm posting under my name continuously, I can't say some things.

This conversation isn't going to go anywhere (and it's disrespectful to Hacker News as a medium), and I'm sorry that you react to everything I say with such acidity. I'm going to bow out now, since it's just pointless to continue. You really need to get some perspective and stop treating the world with such hostility, or you're heading for an episode of your own creation. I'm sorry that you and I don't see eye to eye, and that you loathe me so much; if I could change that, I would.