I’m over it. I generally don’t respond to snark with snark. Why feed the beast? Unless I unleashed it first. Seems like we’re talking past each other. My initial comment was simply to help inform people about what anti-skating is and to therefore probably take Massdrop copy with a grain of salt. Maybe I over-reacted, maybe I didn’t. Maybe you were snarky, maybe you weren’t. Either way, I’ve said my peace and I was trying to be helpful to anyone who might have found it useful. Do with it what you will. Again, I’m over it. Hope you get where I was coming from on this. If you had your tongue planted firmly in your cheek and I didn’t get that, I’d only say that tone is hard to convey in text. Particularly when you don’t know the person you’re communicating with. Trust me, I’ve unintentionally started lots of arguments in text messages simply because my tone was misunderstood, by a FRIEND even. Had a friend of mine said what you said verbatim, I probably would have had a laugh about it. Cheers.

"I’ve been around long enough to recognize a back-handed compliment. " And 'snark' too, apparently...can you recognize the tilting point where it becomes trolling? "One doesn’t have to be thin skinned to discern insincerity. Context." -However, if one does become so bothered and defensive, one's skin is very likely to be - as you say - thin. Reaction. Anyway, your proper initial response should have been "Thanks for letting us know that you know what 'conflation' is"...or something to that effect. That would have shut my snarky, ungrateful ass right up. Grrrrr-atitude.

And you did it again. I don’t see how your snark could be taken any other way. You must be proud of yourself. “Thanks for letting everyone know that you know how anti-skate works.” So I’m to believe the you were really expressing gratitude? I’ve been around long enough to recognize a back-handed compliment. One doesn’t have to be thin skinned to discern insincerity. Context.