i see you edited your comment to remove the offensive bit, before i could ask quis custodes custodit? but doesn’t honesty and culture of hacker news require that you acknowledge the edit in the text that remains?

i was going to say that scolding is what abusive adults do to helpless kids when they assume that kids can’t be reasoned with. so good thing you realized and took it out. just as you hope that i don’t call anyone stupid so i hope you don’t scold any of hacker news’ patrons anymore :)

take care and have a nice day!

I add 'edit' once I think someone will have seen a comment, and certainly once there's a reply, but if there are no replies and the glue hasn't dried yet, I often take the first few minutes to edit. Lately I've taken to including the marker "[editing...]" whilst I'm doing that, but I can't remember if I did it in this case or not.

I use the word 'scolding' quite a bit: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que..., so it's not as if I was trying to hide any tracks there! But I don't use it in the spirit you're describing. I guess I use it to slightly mock the process, including my part in it. This whole internet forum thing is mostly trivial and largely ridiculous.

I've referred to such reminders as "admonishments" which seems less pejorative than "scolding".