This comment, and your downstream replies are very clearly against the guidelines here. In particular, it is flamebait. You're effectively guaranteeing that this whole thread gets flagged and buried.
Assuming the parent comment is correct, editing the subject comments (which I haven't read) to be a dot is very respectable. I write a lot of comments that would start flame wars. The extent to which I succeed in not starting them is the extent to which I delete them.