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The point is not that it was a good title, it's that you should not respond to a bad title with a bad HN comment. ("Good" and "bad" in this context mean, to a first approximation, in accordance (or not) with the HN guidelines.) If you had posted a version of this comment instead (i.e. your second comment, which I'm currently replying to), that would of course have been fine. Btw this is a case of the 'rebound' phenom…
It's one thing to have read the guidelines; quite another to appreciate them through experience. Thanks for the pointers.
Thanks for the kind reply!