[targafarian]

Maybe your parent commenter made it too personal by bringing respect into the discussion. I just didn't feel your parent poster called anyone a name, so I disagree with what you're saying was being done there. That commenter named an action as being ugly, which is not problematic, IMHO.

I don't think it's the same thing as calling names; it's an important distinction to me to criticize actions and not people, and that's what your parent did.

Many here are criticizing the actions of GitHub/MS. That's fair, but we can also criticize the act of criticizing just the same.

(Again, I might agree with you if bringing "respect" into it could be seen as having a similar effect as name-calling in the sense that it makes the discussion more personal than it needs to be.)