[YeGoblynQueenne]

I don't understand why there is such a big group of people who see AI research like a team sport, where it's "us" vs "them" and "we" are the cheerleaders of our home team, and "they" are the haters and "we" must do everything to shout those bad guys down.

Criticism is essential for progress in science, and even in AI research (which is far from science). Get over it. The role of the critic is not to be your enemy, the role of the critic is to help you improve your work. That makes no difference if the critic is a bad person who wants your downfall, or not. What makes a difference is if you can convincingly demonstrate that your critic's criticism does not hold anymore. Then people stop listening to the critic- not when you shout louder than the critic.

Oh and, btw, you do that demonstrating by improving your work, which implies that you need to be one of the researchers whose work is criticised to do that, rather than some random cheerleader of the interwebs. What you propose here, to compose some sort of document to paste all over twitter everytime someone says something critical of the "home team", that's not what researchers do; it's organising an internet mob. And it has exactly 0 chance of being of any use to anyone.

Not to mention the focus on Emily Bender is downright creepy.