I do not feel I called him a name. I called out his pedantry, which I felt was an accurate use of the word given the wording he chose (specifically the "by hood or by crook").

He edited his post and added a lot of words that made it seem a lot less pedantic after the fact.

The original post I received was pretty bare bones originally and gave me a completely different impression than what is written now.

But I definitely overreacted to what was written, even originally.

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"As bad as you make it sound, they are teaching kids stuff, even at less-than-wealthy school districts.

https://nces.ed.gov/datapoints/2019179.asp

By hood or by crook, or by underfunded inner-city/rural public school, we're teaching a hell of a lot of kids to read and write.

I attended elementary through middle-school at a district too poor to offer a high-school chemistry class, and still learned my times tables and how to write a paragraph."

Calling names can mean different things, of course. The sense in which we use the term just means using pejorative labels. The phrase "your pedantry" in "that's a lot of words to support your pedantry" combines a personal pronoun with a pejorative, which is bad.

Don't worry about it too much—we appreciate your good intentions. It's just best to review one's comments and edit out anything that might come across as a swipe. (That's what I do.) Remember that comments are 1000x more likely to sound that way to readers—especially the particular reader being addressed—than to the person posting the comment.