> If you find my writing to be "passive aggressive," please note my username and ignore (or downvote) everything I write.

I'm playing armchair psychologist here at 1am (not the only one), but this kind of comment is the definition of passive-aggressive.

You started on a good samaritan stance but upon being challenged, their comment is 'disturbing', doesn't make sense, and is in bad faith. Then you say you don't give a shit, but evidently you do enough to write a long response, ending on sarcastic good wishes for dramatic effect.

    "Passive-aggressive behavior is a pattern of indirectly 
     expressing negative feelings instead of openly addressing 
     them. There's a disconnect between what a person who 
     exhibits passive-aggressive behavior says and what he or she does."

If you really cared about people doing whatever they want, one would expect you to happily chat about their preferences and findings; instead, your default answers read dismissive and as a polite "fuck off". In that case everyone would be better off by not commenting at all. What are we here for anyway?

This:

  I wish you health, happiness and success. Have a good day.

Was not sarcastic at all.

I have no issue with GP that would cause me to wish them ill.

In fact, illustrating that was the reason I wished them well.

> If you find my writing to be "passive aggressive," please note my username and ignore (or downvote) everything I write.

I admit I haven't really looked to see if this already exists, but I've occasionally considered writing a filter for HN that would allow users to blackhole other users. And not just hiding with a thin layer, but making them cease to exist. In a hierarchical enivronment like HN it would have the effect of blackholing other people by extension, if they reply, but it's the ultimate way to curate your bubble.

Now I'm wondering if I would give it the option to auto-downvote. Ha! Call it the Spite List.

Though I do wonder if HN voting algorithms are able to recognize voting patterns like that and discount them. More than just saying "You only get X actual downvotes per day, beyond that the value of each existing downvote decreases as you add more." It should be easy to notice that user X has downvoted user Y multiple times, especially in unrelated conversations.

I don’t think Hn’s algorithm would take kindly to that kind of downvoting behavior.

I didn’t intend to disturb you. I almost never assume negative intent, so I gave feedback in case you want to take it up and prevent readers from getting that impression.

Thank you.