@grgarside /facepalm

"Why was your post deleted? See the help centre." As I see it, I posted an answer, it got a couple of up-votes, after which it attracted first one minor troll, then a major one. End result, I get penalised. apple.stackexchange.com/a/175607/85275

@Tetsujin I deleted your "answer"

It was telling the OP (politely) to not do what they ask. It's not answering the question at hand.

Furthermore, several people violated the "be nice" clause at the top of the help page.

apple.stackexchange.com/help/be-nice

I deleted those comments that were "nasty" or "insulting" to people as opposed to criticizing ideas.

Let me know if you'd like a private room to work out why you feel "penalized" If you want to edit your answer to address the question directly, I have no issue whatsoever with undeleting it. Just flag and we'll proceed as you wish.

@bmike - honestly, I thought I was 'answering the question'. I don't think this needs private, as I'm not ranting like a looney (really;), I just thought dumping the answer rather than just the comment exchange was a bit far. I really thought the answer itself was valid. I didn't think this issue/exchange/etc warranted a meta, so I just dropped my concern in here.

Sounds great. I prefer things in main chat as long as everyone feels fine with it.

You're not ranting at all. :-)

Would you like me to move the "answer" to comments - similar to what I did here?

I guess in the overall scheme of things that would be fine, though I did think the 'answer' in itself was valid, if flippant - it was just the comment tirade that skewed it somewhat, after the fact. [I like what you did with that reference, btw, was definitely better as a comment… as I clearly wasn't reading correctly what the OP meant.]