>I'm not trying to disagree with your point! I just wanted to let you, and people reading your comment know that it wasn't accurate (as was described in the headline of the post and the article) in this case.
Then you did it incorrectly, because you worded it as:
>>>Except...the University in this case hasn't said ...
That is, my point is wrong, because this one case isn't actually happen. But my comment doesn't depend on this incident having actually happened! (It simply points out that this would be the natural outgrowth of the incentives, and that the hive mind would be inconsistent to object.)
If you were actually trying to do what you claimed, the appropriate way is to indicate it's a nitpick or that it doesn't affect the general point, or that you're just saying that to avoid a misconception that someone might get from the article (and not my comment) -- not to write it as a point of refutation, as you did.
Sure, totally granted and fair enough that my writing didn't convey my intent correctly.
My intent was for "Except" to apply specifically to "University: <Monitors social media>", which was the part I was trying to indicate wasn't factual in this instance. Again, I can totally understand how it reads as I'm disagreeing with the meta-point, and I'm sorry again that my writing failed to be precise enough to match my intent.
Then you did it incorrectly, because you worded it as:
>>>Except...the University in this case hasn't said ...
That is, my point is wrong, because this one case isn't actually happen. But my comment doesn't depend on this incident having actually happened! (It simply points out that this would be the natural outgrowth of the incentives, and that the hive mind would be inconsistent to object.)
If you were actually trying to do what you claimed, the appropriate way is to indicate it's a nitpick or that it doesn't affect the general point, or that you're just saying that to avoid a misconception that someone might get from the article (and not my comment) -- not to write it as a point of refutation, as you did.