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I would think that on a site like this, that wouldn't be true; the issue of whether someone is appropriately updating seems like exactly what we should be talking about. Leaving people to their own rituals of cognition while believing them to be flawed is not an act of courtesy here.
Whether or not she sought to slander anyone, she came off as pretty harsh for (what seem like) very trivial things. (At least I can link to this if anyone claims my disputes with Alicorn have been 100% unreasonableness on my part...)
Now, if komponisto's criticized "non-nice" remarks really are offensive to a large group of people, this is important to know -- and it's just as important to know that it's not someone falsely representing that group for personal reasons.