twooffour said:

Well I would've gladly taken some insults and ridicule for a crude mistake like that.

What you would gladly take is not the standard for communications with others. You might be willing to be called every name in the book, that doesn't give you license to be rude with others.

Last time when Frink posted about some LOST edit and I missed the part where he said he didn't write it, people were acting pretty fucking abusive about it, calling me a moron and posting pictures of bananas, but you didn't see me whine about it or deny my mistake because that (as soon as I realized it, that is) now did you?

You've absolutely built up a fair amount of ill will because you exhibited a lack of civility early and often. Sometimes we do go over the top, perhaps, but when you fail to engender any respect that can happen.

Because it was completely justified.
Sometimes you just have to take it, laugh at your mistakes, and not allow the "act cocky and go into denial if abused" defense mechanism to take over. It simply doesn't help.

Justified because people lack respect for you or because you made a reading comprehension error? Abuse is not justified for misreading. Maybe not even "justified" because people find you arrogant and rude, but that is why people respond to you as they do.

So no, we don't buy your argument that we're entitled to be nasty with one another over misunderstandings because that's your modus operandi. Stop trying to justify your rudeness. If you want an Nth chance at being treated civilly, you do have to earn it.