We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13723202 and marked it off-topic.
All i did was try to give him the benefit of the doubt until it was clear he was trolling. If things like this bother you, i recommend actually taking steps that discourage people from arguing in bad faith.
It is extremely hard to determine when someone is just ignorant, or when they're taking the piss; but when it's clear the latter should not be acceptable.
HN depends on us keeping our comments more civil and substantive as a topic gets contentious or another person's comments get annoying. I say more because we all have a bias not to perceive how we're slipping in such situations (it always feels like someone else started it, and did worse, while "I merely", etc.), so there needs to be a conscious counteraction.
Do you honestly think i was uncivil? Made unsubstantive (non-factual?) comments? If so, where?
Because quite frankly on reviewing the conversation i cannot see it. I can see only comments from me that are perfectly polite and factual, except for the last edit in the last post i made, where i stopped being polite.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13724307 was uncivil, as you mention. So was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13723815. I don't mean to pick on you personally, but your username sticks in my mind as someone who's done this kind of thing a fair bit. You're a good commenter otherwise, so I/we'd appreciate it if you'd work on this.