When you write a comment here, you're talking not simply (or even primarily) to the person you're responding to, but also to the rest of the community. Have you considered what value there might be, or not be, in a comment like this?

We are extraordinarily fortunate to be taken seriously enough as a community for the primary sources on stories like this to come talk to us directly. I'd ask, as a neighbor of yours in this community, that you not (rhetorically) chase those people away.

Thanks!

That's a fair ask, that post was not one of my better moments. As much as I dislike the rhetorical tactic wielded with "everyone who doesn't agree with me is simply confused", a one-sentence tell off does nothing to counter it, and just makes me look like a jerk. Which I was.