This is a good catch by the way, and itself another oddity.

Canon Dumbledore told Harry a lot about Voldemort's background (including the Riddle years and his theories about the horcruxes) - HPMOR Dumbledore has done none of this. And yet he expects Harry to fight him, and Harry already knows about the prophecy.

Another issue is that I'm recently doubting whether Quirrell/Voldemort is actually Tom Riddle in the HPMOR universe. It is clearly implied that Quirrell = Voldemort, but then suddenly in chapters 84 and 85 we get this Quirrell = Hero identification (from a Noble and Ancient House, no less). Further, Eliezer has made it clear that Hero is not Tom Riddle (by adjusting the birth year).

So what are the possibilities? It seems that either Tom Riddle killed the original Hero character, and then impersonated him in the fight against his alter ego Voldemort. Or, even more intriguingly, the Hero character fought and defeated Tom Riddle much earlier on, then set up the Voldemort character to be the awful Dark Lord with a "secret" identity of Tom Riddle, while himself being the "secret within a secret" identity, and the heroic adversary. This is a plot worthy of a truly evil Sith Lord such as Emperor Palpatine. Presumably the Death Eaters as well as Dumbledore and aurors are all deceived, and this is the real reason why booby-trapping the grave of Tom Riddle's father (after TSPE) is going to be of no use. Quirrelmort has no need to hide the father's grave, because it's totally irrelevant.

You've completely conceded that your initial argument was total crap. Now you're making a completely different argument. But you were initially just being a total asshole, and your initial argument was wrong. If you would have actually conceded that instead of completely changing what your criticism was, I might think of you as a more genuine person rather than as a disingenuous reputation hound.

I've made factual mistakes but they in no way justify your behavior or the behavior of others.

My imprecision led to no flawed conclusions. And you just stole that argument from pedanterrific, you didn't even think of it yourself, that's pathetic for a defense of your actions or above comment. And I didn't make the imprecision until after your comment: "It only requires that Malfoy knows Voldemort to be Tom Riddle -- which in canon he did." So you're obviously lying when you say "I've only been making corrections when the mistakes significantly affect such conclusions." But the commenters here are stupid and apparently don't notice things like that.

But the idiots who gave you 2 karma (solely for the purpose of opposing my post, because I am now "low status" in your eyes) obviously don't care about consistent advocacies or anything like that, so you only have social incentives to cheat and lie and commit underhanded fallacies, instead of actually either defending your point or admitting that you were wrong. Your (2 levels) above comment was useless, so I conclude that the commenters on this site either don't know how to evaluate comments rationally or else they want to use karma for other purposes.

My impression of this site has gone way down. I mistakenly assumed rationalists would be rational.

That was stupid of me.

Goodbye. I'll still visit because the authors of the posts are intelligent, but I never want to deal with moron commenters who don't want to have productive discussions or, more importantly, the fact that so many people out there just don't recognize the tactics that you're using. I'm sure that this type of belief and argument has a "low status" association in the eyes of many of the other commenters, and based on their past behavior I predict that more negative reputation and bad counterarguments are on the way. But it can't be helped, and I'm not going to waste my time responding to them.

Dumbledore talks about Tom = Voldemort all the time in front of him... I think.

But it doesn't impact my point either way. But I understand why pointing out the error still makes sense despite the previous sentence.

And now I've wasted an hour arguing on the internet which is one of the most useless things that I know of and which is what I was trying to avoid in the first place hangs head in shame.