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>Then my eyes moved down the thread, where a third user had left a new comment. It read: “King Canute was supposed to stop the tide, you couch alluder.”

It seems to me that comment is a joke. Playfully nitpicking word choice while putting in a bit of banter. But the article seems to be taking the comment as a serious argument/insult.

>>Thorre+(OP)
I think this is quite a common thing on the internet, people feigning ignorance to be upset about something.

>>Thorre+(OP)
Yes, it's an obvious joke. "You couch alluder" is the wink.

>>Thorre+(OP)
Ref to the comment and context in question:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20522668

>>LandR+N
I can tell you as a person who has been spanked by dang a few times that there truly are people who can be ignorant in the other direction.

I have written a number of replies that to me were simply neutral questions but which felt like an attack, from what I can tell, because they were harshly downvoted and I was even throttled by the mods.

I have to assume that’s on me and I have largely stopped asking for clarification because I seem to do it without sufficient empathy or something.

dang did reply thoughtfully to my inquiries about what I had done and that actually made me feel worse! I know those two are busy doing way more important things and I hate making their day worse.