[JasonADrury]

>The weird part to me is that some people are seemingly trying to downplay a popular website abusing visitors to DDoS someone.

What's the true, practical impact being downplayed here?

[mafuy]

You cannot seriously argue that performing a DDOS on a website, and causing other people to participate in it unwittingly, is a-ok.

[JasonADrury]

Where did I ever argue that?

It's obviously not "a-ok". It's just "meh", a silly childish tantrum.