What’s the problem with my comment? The word “fuck”? The fact that the other commenter got offended because I pointed out their very real struggles with reading comprehension?

I did not call kolbes comments bad, but patiently explained where they got it wrong.

I think you’re seeing fighting where there’s none, at least not on my side.

For starters, "Yeah, I’m sorry that you can’t understand English" was obviously an egregious violation of the site guidelines.

We don't care about people saying "fuck". We care about the things that are in the guidelines, such as being kind, not being snarky, not calling names, and so on.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

There are billions of people on this planet who can’t understand English, there’s nothing wrong with them.

It’s really not unkind to point out when someone is aggressively misinterpreting really simple words.

What you wrote would be taken by most readers as an obvious personal attack. If you say you didn't intend it that way, ok, but we still have to ban accounts that post like that, because such comments are indistinguishable from garden-variety personal attacks.