I neither like misrepresenting other people's positions nor am I prone to doing it despite not liking it.

Have I misrepresented your positions?

If your answer was "no" then why not say that?

...not sure if you've mistaken me for someone else. I have no part in this discussion except making the procedural point.

Whoops. Sorry about that.

My point (addressed incorrectly) stands. It makes less sense for me to answer "no" than for the person I was responding to to answer "no". If I was making a "straw man" then in what way was it straw? If I was misrepresenting his/her opinions, how so? Otherwise, if more-or-less accurately summarizing a person's positions is ad hominem then what does that say of those positions?