How dare you call me, specifically, a narcissist with this comment!
(But to be serious, I think it’s easy to accidentally take forum comments personally because the physical act of reading HN comments, social media DMs, and text messages are all basically the same. So maybe it’s easy for our emotions to get mixed up.)
Exactly this :) I should have used a word that carried less weight than "narcissist". Parent comment seemed like an obvious joke but it sucked most of the oxygen out of the thread.
(But to be serious, I think it’s easy to accidentally take forum comments personally because the physical act of reading HN comments, social media DMs, and text messages are all basically the same. So maybe it’s easy for our emotions to get mixed up.)