Actually when I re-read your comment it doesn't seem so flamewarrish to me—sorry! a lot of the time I'm skimming these things in haste.
A couple bits that do correspond to 'the flamewar style', though, are when users start telling each other to "chill a bit"; and when people start arguing about "moving the goal posts and putting words in my mouth". It's a reliable sign of bad internet discussion when people start arguing about they are or aren't saying (rather than talking about whatever the ostensible subject was).
I thought my comment might land ok, which due to a lack of response might have. It explained educated and <funny joke>
I might have typed the same thing in a different time.
*edit, it would be fun to have a forum board that allowed for out of band semantic information so … being cut off