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."[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Brosky: I called them no names. I referred to their argument as bonkers...

The quoted guideline covered your false separation. The discouraged example called a statement idiotic.

Yet it did not allege that calling the statement idiotic is the same as calling its poster idiotic.