24k rep on HN, you should know that's not how we converse here, regardless of whether or not you agree with GP.

I stand by my assessment of GP, but that's beside the point. You're right, and I apologise.

I wouldn’t apologise. I strongly respect the social rules of hacker news but they are by no means perfect and tend to break down in the face of a well calibrated troll.

This particular variant is the verbose non sequitur anti-pattern. It’s effective because it generally can’t be identified at a glance. It requires a lot of contextualised reading. This means it gets few down votes, the canonical sign of disapproval here.