This is the sort of thing I was referring to:

> Instead of bothering to read and understand you have continued to call names.

> You seemed confused, you still seem confused

> your pointless semantic nitpick

> you need to get some more real world experience

I wouldn't personally call that being polite, but whatever we call it, it's certainly against HN's rules, and that's what matters.

Edit: This may or may not be helpful (probably not!) but I wonder if you might be experiencing the "objects in the mirror are closer than they appear" phenomenon that shows up pretty often on the internet - that is, we tend to underestimate the provocation in our own comments, and overestimate the provocation in others' comments, which in the end produces quite a skew (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...).