  In a study of the quasinormal mode frequencies of nearly extremal black
holes, we pointed out a bifurcation of the mode spectrum into modes with finite
decay and modes with vanishing decay in the extremal limit. We provided
analytic and semi-analytic results identifying which families of modes
bifurcated, and when modes with finite decay rates exist when approaching the
extremal limit. In a recent note (arXiv:1510.05604), Hod suggests that
additional modes asymptote to finite decay at extremely high spin parameter,
based on past work by Detweiler. We search for these suggested modes and find
no evidence of their existence. In addition, we point out an inconsistency in
the derivation of the proposed modes, which further indicates that these damped
modes do not exist.
