Calling names can mean different things, of course. The sense in which we use the term just means using pejorative labels. The phrase "your pedantry" in "that's a lot of words to support your pedantry" combines a personal pronoun with a pejorative, which is bad.
Don't worry about it too much—we appreciate your good intentions. It's just best to review one's comments and edit out anything that might come across as a swipe. (That's what I do.) Remember that comments are 1000x more likely to sound that way to readers—especially the particular reader being addressed—than to the person posting the comment.
Don't worry about it too much—we appreciate your good intentions. It's just best to review one's comments and edit out anything that might come across as a swipe. (That's what I do.) Remember that comments are 1000x more likely to sound that way to readers—especially the particular reader being addressed—than to the person posting the comment.