An important difference, though, is that you didn’t say it to him in the context of an ongoing debate. You called him out by name in a thread where he had not even participated.
Instead of:
why not write:
??
It doesn’t change the substance of your argument, and it has the benefit of not poisoning the well by taking a direct jab at another poster.
As breaches of etiquette go, it’s not the worst thing in the world, and Rand Rover has demonstrated time and again that his skin is thick enough to take it, as well as dish it out in return. But i just don’t see the point of needling someone like that in the OP of a GD thread.
Just MHO.