Wow. Don't think I've had a comment with negative points on HN before. Curious as to why the downvotes. I was attempting to point out that I did not consider what I said in the original comment to be a hard and fast rule.

Is the objection that the way I said it was too disrespectful (no offense was intended, hence the :-) )? Disagreeing with the original statement (it might have downvotes too, but maybe more upvotes are hiding that)? Too obvious? Something else?