I believe you! but we need you to understand how such a comment comes across that way anyway. Basically, we have to go not by intent but by effects. Here are some links to past explanations on this point which may (or not) be helpful:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...