That’s not my impression of what happened. As far as I remember, the only substantive deviation from “vigorous debate” into something more hostile came from you, and even that wasn’t that big of a deviation.
(And recall that, like you, I think that @infix is a horrible idea. And I agree that the line of argumentation you were responding to was frustrating and insufficiently responsive to points that were being made.)
You’ll need to find another example. I’m happy to explain in private why the behaviors illustrated in that particular thread (I assume you mean The @infix Annotation) fall into various different categories, and why some are more okay than others.
Indeed. This is why I strive to avoid rudeness, while still maintaining very low tolerance for sloppy thinking and bad ideas.
I think there’s room for improvement, but I think the charges being leveled at the existing state of affairs are overblown. I don’t doubt anyone’s claims about how they feel about things, but there are practical limits to how much we can cater to different reactions to the same events.