No problem, sorry if I was too harsh in my comment.

The timestamps don't help as we posted at the same time. And a post that comes after mine with no other clarification can only really be seen as a response by me.

Not really. If someone wants to respond to your post specifically they have several ways they can do that. Making a new, standalone post that's not attached to yours in any way is not one of they ways they can do this. This post, for example, is specifically disputing something you said, so I hit the "dispute" button under your post so it would show up in your activity feed and also be evident to you and anyone else who reads this that I am addressing your post, specifically. If I just made a new post it might very well end up a dozen posts or more away from yours very quickly, making it confusing to know who is talking to who. That's why we use the support, dispute, and clarify buttons; they're designed for that purpose. The only reason your mistake was 'highly justifiable" is you're relatively new (in posts, if not time) to this website, though honestly I'd think over a hundred points accumulated over more than 100 days would be enough to figure out how those buttons work.