I don't really know how to explain this, but let me try. The convo is still there. It was between the mod and the user until you interjected.
That gave that user (that was already in a bad mood, mind you!) a target to focus their anger on. If you hadn't stepped in like that, HDE would have been able to handle things just fine. See how he keeps trying to steer the convo back to the topic HDE wanted to discuss with the user?
Now, after you interrupted that conversation, you became a target in it as well. I appreciate the chivalry of jumping in front of HDE to catch the bullets, but it reall…