So, as this morning found I this question on the side bar in the Meta hot list - it seems not only was I hounded in comments, I'm now being hounded, after the OP returns from a ban to cool off, in meta.

Rather than flagging, I'm going to voice my opinion of this as a direct answer.

No-one except moderators can see the entire thread [not even me, of course]. The partial comment thread re-posted by the OP was after many previous iterations of the very same factoid - that unix has some magic sysreq key.
This is of absolutely no import on a Mac, as the key doesn't exist. This thread was flagged & deleted.
I made my point that it had no relevance to the question. I saw no reason whatsoever to add this information, & compromised by adding the word 'almost' to the disputed line, after the first couple of insistences.

This apparently wasn't enough for some… more insistence that I should specifically add an irrelevant fact about an OS not in the question seemed to be the only way to mollify this user.

I still saw absolutely no reason to add this. I was now being pinged about every ten minutes by the same user over the same thing. As the Answer poster, of course, I get pinged for every comment, I don't need to be specifically @flagged or have responded.

By the time I posted my irate comment, quoted above, we were well into this truly pointless debate & I thought that the compromise would have been sufficient. I certainly wasn't going to add it to the answer.

Now we're well into harassment territory, which I warned my stalker about.
Unbowed, on he went…

I flagged, he added more, I flagged again, he was banned.

…and now he's back, still blaming me for what is now pretty obviously totally single-minded harassment.
I'm now being targeted specifically, in public.
The OP is still insisting this completely irrelevant information was sooo important he has to raise an entire meta question to once again try to blame me for his appalling behaviour.

Some people really just don't know when to quit.

So, as this morning found I this question on the side bar in the Meta hot list - it seems not only was I hounded in comments, I'm now being hounded, after the OP returns from a ban to cool off, in meta.

Rather than flagging, I'm going to voice my opinion of this as a direct answer.

No-one except moderators can see the entire thread [not even me, of course]. The partial comment thread re-posted by the OP was after many previous iterations of the very same factoid - that unix has some magic sysreq key.
This is of absolutely no import on a Mac, as the key doesn't exist. This thread was eventually flagged & deleted [apparently after 10 comments, according to Sathyajith Bhat♦ as mentioned above].
I made my point that it had no relevance to the question. I saw no reason whatsoever to add this information, & compromised by adding the word 'almost' to the disputed line, after the first couple of insistences.

This apparently wasn't enough for some… more insistence that I should specifically add an irrelevant fact about an OS not in the question seemed to be the only way to mollify this user.

I still saw absolutely no reason to add this. I was now being pinged about every ten minutes by the same user over the same thing. As the Answer poster, of course, I get pinged for every comment, I don't need to be specifically @flagged or have responded.

By the time I posted my irate comment, quoted above, we were well into this truly pointless debate & I thought that the compromise would have been sufficient. I certainly wasn't going to add it to the answer.

Now we're well into harassment territory, which I warned my stalker about.
Unbowed, on he went…

I flagged, he added more, I flagged again, he was banned.

…and now he's back, still blaming me for what is now pretty obviously totally single-minded harassment.
I'm now being targeted specifically, in public.
The OP is still insisting this completely irrelevant information was sooo important he has to raise an entire meta question to once again try to blame me for his appalling behaviour.

Some people really just don't know when to quit.

So, as this morning found I this question on the side bar in the Meta hot list - it seems not only was I hounded in comments, I'm now being hounded, after the OP returns from a ban to cool off, in meta.

Rather than flagging, I'm going to voice my opinion of this as a direct answer.

No-one except moderators can see the entire thread [not even me, of course]. The partial comment thread re-posted by the OP was after many previous iterations of the very same factoid - that unix has some magic sysreq key.
This is of absolutely no import on a Mac, as the key doesn't exist. This thread was flagged & deleted.
I made my point that it had no relevance to the question. I saw no reason whatsoever to add this information, & compromised by adding the word 'almost' to the disputed line, after the first couple of insistences.

This apparently wasn't enough for some… more insistence that I should specifically add an irrelevant fact about an OS not in the question seemed to be the only way to mollify this user.

I still saw absolutely no reason to add this. I was now being pinged about every ten minutes by the same user over the same thing. As the Answer poster, of course, I get pinged for every comment, I don't need to be specifically @flagged or have responded.

By the time I posted my irate comment, quoted above, we were well into this truly pointless debate & I thought that the compromise would have been sufficient. I certainly wasn't going to add it to the answer.

Now we're well into harassment territory, which I warned my stalker about [he didn't quote that bit].
Unbowed, on he went…

I flagged, he added more, I flagged again, he was banned.

…and now he's back, still blaming me for what is now pretty obviously totally single-minded harassment.
I'm now being targeted specifically, in public.
The OP is still insisting this completely irrelevant information was sooo important he has to raise an entire meta question to once again try to blame me for his appalling behaviour.

Some people really just don't know when to quit.

So, as this morning found I this question on the side bar in the Meta hot list - it seems not only was I hounded in comments, I'm now being hounded, after the OP returns from a ban to cool off, in meta.

Rather than flagging, I'm going to voice my opinion of this as a direct answer.

No-one except moderators can see the entire thread [not even me, of course]. The partial comment thread re-posted by the OP was after many previous iterations of the very same factoid - that unix has some magic sysreq key.
This is of absolutely no import on a Mac, as the key doesn't exist. This thread was flagged & deleted.
I made my point that it had no relevance to the question. I saw no reason whatsoever to add this information, & compromised by adding the word 'almost' to the disputed line, after the first couple of insistences.

This apparently wasn't enough for some… more insistence that I should specifically add an irrelevant fact about an OS not in the question seemed to be the only way to mollify this user.

I still saw absolutely no reason to add this. I was now being pinged about every ten minutes by the same user over the same thing. As the Answer poster, of course, I get pinged for every comment, I don't need to be specifically @flagged or have responded.

By the time I posted my irate comment, quoted above, we were well into this truly pointless debate & I thought that the compromise would have been sufficient. I certainly wasn't going to add it to the answer.

Now we're well into harassment territory, which I warned my stalker about.
Unbowed, on he went…

I flagged, he added more, I flagged again, he was banned.

…and now he's back, still blaming me for what is now pretty obviously totally single-minded harassment.
I'm now being targeted specifically, in public.
The OP is still insisting this completely irrelevant information was sooo important he has to raise an entire meta question to once again try to blame me for his appalling behaviour.

Some people really just don't know when to quit.