Edit add: image googling you after your flagging of the comment, well, just lol. Must be tough.
I originally decided not to, even though this personal attack was so awful, and so low. (I've left my earlier post intact below this one, for those who want the gory details.) But I changed my mind after doing something that I should have done in the first place: I looked at your account's recent history. I hadn't done that in a while, and much to my dismay, it had gotten considerably worse.
Obviously my efforts to persuade you have failed. That fucking sucks, because I have admired your technical comments; sympathy for APL/array languages is my Achilles' heel for one thing, and when you post substantively, your posts often contain information that doesn't otherwise appear here. But it seems the only way we can get that is with poison, and the poison levels have been going up not down. We simply can't have that.
Obviously that's a bannable offense and I'm shocked and disgusted that you stooped to it. I wanted to think better of you.
We've put up with a ton of shit in your posts because (a) there's often a good point in there—even your point about the Beowulf translation would have been a good HN comment if you had cared to post it that way, and (b) I think highly of your technical comments and think HN would be poorer without them. But we can't have you abusing the site and other users like this; we've banned many accounts for less. I don't want to ban you, but if you don't fix this, there won't be a choice.
It's in your interest to use the site in the intended spirit, because poisoning HN (which is what your behavior, compounded, amounts to) is only going to ruin it as anything interesting. We have a hard enough time trying to prevent this place from sinking. I wince at its mediocrity already and it pains me that someone with the talent to really help it be good prefers instead to piss all over it the way you've been doing.
I feel embarrassed right now.
I think the Beowulf thing just set me off. It came up a few months ago, and for some weird reason my "orange site" radar has been really keyed up on Beowulf ever since. It's weird and not your problem.
It's not like I'm making fun of the lady for having a big nose. She's simply completely ignorant in life experience, and even possible life experience to do justice to the source material.
I think it's also a damn shame my comments are seen as "toxic." I realize America is collapsing into a foment of witch hunts, statue topplings and city burnings, but if you really consider my writing on HN to be .... even "spicy" -the end can't be far off. God help you all.
Best of luck to both of you, Happy New Year, and apologies for rustling your jimmies.