@NeueHeimat, @peregrinus_bis: To rail on at someone over many posts for him having the temerity to criticize an editorial decision, to call him “autistic” for doing so, and to repeatedly defend calling him autistic because it’s not a “mental illness” and so can’t possibly be insulting, is taking things a bit far.
I don’t think there’s a real problem with occasionally commenting a editorial tone or choice at BB – people do it because they love BB, and because, for good or bad, they see BB as being something more than a tiny unknown private blog in the ocean of the web. If someone only comes here to criticize the editors, that’s one thing, but @Glitch clearly doesn’t do that.
Getting into an insulting fight with another commenter is a different matter, and I think it’s significantly less cool and brings down the quality of BB comment threads. I come here precisely because commenters here are usually better than that, and when they argue they argue over the substance of ideas, not just to insult.
