Can you please make your substantive points without swipes? This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Your comment would be just fine without the first sentence.

Clearly I am being targeted by dragonwriter for posting something in another thread that they don't like.

Literally, until just now (checking your comment history to see if possibly we had interacted elsewhere that I had forgotten), I hadn't seen or read any of your posts outside of this thread.

Not sure how you got from me responding to two of your posts in this thread that I was "targeting" you for something in some other thread.

Pretty sure you (or someone else) decided to pour over my post history looking for violations after I posted this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43794576

This 3 day old comment was not flagged until just now, what I said is not a swipe at all.

Correct link: https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=43796297

Somehow, I can't edit a 5-minute-old post.

"You are missing the point" counts as a swipe in the sense that the HN guidelines are using the term. Please edit them out in the future. They just add acid to the threads, and you don't need them.

Looking over account histories is standard moderation; of course we do that.

It's a fairly benign sentence selected as the worst thing in my post history due to a witch hunt because I posted a completely unbiased summary of events that was interpreted as right-leaning.

It's not about your other comment, just this one.

> Most things that approach a black hole end up orbiting it because they are not aimed directly at its center.

Most things that approach a black hole aren't trying to hit it.

Can you please not stalk me?