I thought your comment was interesting and merited a reply for others to see and discuss. But I see you disagree so I've removed the content of my reply.

Feel free to flag any comments you find particularly toxic or hostile. You can do that by clicking on the timestamp of the comment and clicking the `flag` link.

Or even better, let me know (like you have done so here). I can't improve myself if I don't know there's a problem.

Posting something and deleting it after it has been seen is basically gaslighting. Imagine the kinds of harassment people could get away with if they said rude things to coworkers on chat, then edited the messages to appear benign after the coworker responded to their hostility.

That is why people quote the text of comments to which they want to reply.

Furthermore is strenuous disagreement now toxic and hostile?

Wouldn't it be more trivial to say I do not wish to engage and leave it at that? Ironically calling someone toxic hostile and creepy is... pretty toxic.

I think someone has the right to change their mind about something they've said. That's why I edited my comment to remove it.

> Furthermore is strenuous disagreement now toxic and hostile?

I don't think so. But I know that I sometimes get passionate about my opinions. I welcome someone's input to keep me friendly.

> Wouldn't it be more trivial to say I do not wish to engage and leave it at that? Ironically calling someone toxic hostile and creepy is... pretty toxic.

I would like to think better than that. I think it was good of @ojnabieoot to let me know that they thought I'd wronged them.

Some people can feel very anxious or awkward to conversation for very good reasons. They can state opinions and then choose to retract their opinions for any reason -- even if the opinion is held but they choose to remove themselves from the conversation. I think that's a good thing to discuss but this isn't the venue to.