Yes, it’s not just the request, it’s the phrasing - it almost comes across as issuing an instruction, really, and for a thread that one wasn’t even the OP for.
FTR, I did report it. If one wanted to discuss the OP, one could just go back to discussing the OP, no need to harsh everyone else’s buzz. It’s the Cafe, not GD or GQ.
Or use the flag button.
Although I suspect the real reason was given in this followup post:
i.e. it wasn’t that a hijack was happening, but the subject of that hijack, that was the problem for the OP. People were having the wrong kind of fun.