This is so far away from anything I meant to say that I have no idea what happened.
> you've still refused to elaborate on how or why you think they're different
I don't?
I think blog posts are different from conversations but that should be self-explanatory.
> along with a random assumption about someone else's life based on the comment they initially made
"Bad day or something" is suggesting they're being too harsh. It's not suggesting they fail to understand the situation, the way you did with me.
> I don't think you've been direct at all about anything relating to the actual original conversation; the only things you've been direct about are in telling me or others that we're wrong and pointing out the things you think we've been doing wrong
What do you want me to be more direct about? The answer to whether I understand these broad categories of social norms exist is yes. I just don't think the blog post falls into the category where you need a thank you first. Is there anything else you want to ask?
I don't think I can say anything useful about your last paragraph.
Looking back though before writing this comment, I did notice that the comment seems to have been flagged, and that doesn't seem necessary to me. On the off chance that it might have been a factor in your subsequent responses, I went ahead and vouched for it because I think I would be frustrated if I were flagged for a comment that was similarly benign (even if it was wrong).
I don't think you've been direct at all about anything relating to the actual original conversation; the only things you've been direct about are in telling me or others that we're wrong and pointing out the things you think we've been doing wrong (along with a random assumption about someone else's life based on the comment they initially made), and then proceeded to take issue with every instance where someone else does the exact same things.
It's pretty much impossible phrase this point because you have gotten upset any time I happen to incidentally phrase something using the second person pronoun, but I'll try my best: when person A says something, and person B doesn't understand it, that's not sufficient evidence to conclude that person A or person B is at fault. Communication doesn't exist in only one direction. Sometimes it might be because person B did a bad job understanding, but sometimes it's also because person A did a bad job communicating. In the scenarios where person A happened to do a bad job, it's pretty common for them not to realize, because if they did realize, they would follow up by clarifying. It's pretty much impossible for person A to know whether they communicated clearly or not without some other person to interpret it, because communication that isn't interpreted in some way by someone else isn't actually communication.