I understand why you didn't like his comment, but that doesn't justify the misquote. That being said, if you couldn't read his comment well, I understand. His comment's hex color is almost matching the background.
If you do think it refers to the common trope, I'm curious why you think "my" versus "a" makes a difference.
Regardless, the point of the quote marks in that parenthetical was to denote common tropes that appear in his comment, not to use his exact language. I'm sorry that their usage was confusing.
Nope, we're in agreement there.
> the point of the quote marks in that parenthetical was to denote common tropes that appear in his comment, not to use his exact language.
Exact language can be important, especially when quotes are being directly sequenced. In this case, sequencing two quotes with different subjects, while modifying the second quote to be more subject agnostic, is problematic.
> I'm sorry that their usage was confusing.
No worries, sounds like you didn't intentionally modify the quote to redefine the meaning at all.