Scott Hanselman held a session on this at Alt.net Seattle a few years back, called "Why so mean?" At the time, in the Alt.net community, we had some pretty nast

Scott Hanselman held a session on this at Alt.net Seattle a few years back, called "Why so mean?" At the time, in the Alt.net community, we had some pretty nasty people. The picture of Scott suggesting the session is pretty great: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ExperiencingALTNETSeattle2009OpenSpaces.aspx http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ExperiencingALTNETSeattle2009O... Recording of the session used to be here: http://www.kyte.tv/shanselman#uri=channels/240253/361169 http://www.kyte.tv/shanselman#uri=channels/240253/361169 but it appears that the service might be dead (or just blocked here at work) Overall I think Zed is overreacting. It's so easy to do. I would guess he may just be one that may not be able to discern tone through text very well (most people can't, I think). That said, I have a lot of respect for Zed and his contributions, such as Learn Python The Hard Way.