Dan it’s not flamebait. The person tried to falsely paint a single example of behaviour as a common thing.
Unfortunately a lot of people seem to really hate Elon Musk, so “you’re right he only did this once but it was poor behaviour” turns into flagging anyone that points this out and then bringing up unrelated matters as an instance of whataboutism.
We’ve had three or four discussions over the last 16 years, one I’m fairly sure you’d now think you were in the wrong, so I’m not sure why you would say this is common.
Asking someone "Do you understand plurals?" is an insulting way of calling them dumb. Personal insults are certainly flamebait and definitely not allowed here.
OK fair enough. I did genuinely wonder how the parent did not understand that writing something happened multiple times when it happened once was untrue, but I should have used better language here.
Unfortunately a lot of people seem to really hate Elon Musk, so “you’re right he only did this once but it was poor behaviour” turns into flagging anyone that points this out and then bringing up unrelated matters as an instance of whataboutism.
We’ve had three or four discussions over the last 16 years, one I’m fairly sure you’d now think you were in the wrong, so I’m not sure why you would say this is common.