Actually, the mistake is mine, I meant to write golint (but too late to edit). I have no issue with gofmt. As for golint, https://github.com/golang/lint/pull/100 is the kind of thing I'm thinking about.
The Go team aren't the most respectful, but I think Dsymonds is uncharacteristically rude. Most of my experiences with the rest of the Go team have ranged from "sorta terse, but I'll give the benefit of the doubt" to very positive.