The bulk of the responsibility for this ludicrous flamewar is yours. You became increasingly uncivil and spatty in this thread, and proliferated reams of tit-for-tat filler.

This is the sort of argument that gets a few combatants hot and bothered and clogs up the site with tedium for everyone else. We ban accounts that do this, so please make sure it doesn't happen again. HN threads are for good conversation, and there's no worse conversation than this kind of bickering.