How to respond to comments by experts?

There is yet another thing I wanted to mention: if a correction sounds impolite, aggressive or plain weird to you, you might consider that this guy could be dealing with serious issues. There are quite a few high functioning autistic or aspergerian taxonomists. Others are dealing with chronical pains (old age, disease ect). There may be people who recently lost someone they love. You name it. There are a lot of reasons why some people might have difficulties to express themselves in a nice manner. In this light you might understand that not every response will be in the best tradition of your favorite school of good behavior.