[belovedeagle]

> personally attacking

Personal attack? What personal attack? Are you reading the same comment I am? He identified someone. If identification amounts to a personal attack, then that would seem to indicate severe problems with the image of the person being identified!

[chetanahuja]

"The negative-nancy is Timothy Baldridge, an employee of Rich Hickey's company Cognitect. Cognitect is "the" Clojure company and represents the inner-clique."

Apart from the juvenile "negative-nancy", there's also the clear implication of ascribing untoward motives based on the person's identity.