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Can you please make your substantive points without name-calling like "This is hogwash"? Your comment would be just fine without that bit.

This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

"When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. 'That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3' can be shortened to '1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

>>dang+(OP)
OK, but in my defense "hogwash" is literally defined as "nonsense" by Oxford dictionary, I didn't call a person names and only criticized the idea. It's softer than "idiotic" which while also an attribute of the idea may be taken to imply that the person is an idiot. Not my intention.

The point is nevertheless taken that it adds nothing of substance to the argument, and I will not do it again.