Alright then leave, I’m not going to substantially engage with someone trying to deceive readers.

Edit: Consider yourself lucky I’m not requesting a mod to ban this account ‘Retric’ for deception.

That’s not how things operate here. Note how your complaint isn’t in the guidelines. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

The site encourages people to delete unproductive comments that haven’t been responding to as it improves the reading experiences for 3rd parties. Which is one of the reasons there’s a big old delete button and you can edit posts for a full hour.

Adding “Edit:” is important for clarity when a post has been responded to, without that it’s just clutter.

I’m not going to substantially engage with you. Period.

You never did meaningfully engage anywhere in the thread.

That’s the issue.

I’m not convinced you’re capable of meaningful dialogue.

Nobody’s going to trust the word of a proven deceiver… but if you want to burn away your account then I won’t stop you.