The point was that it's not the kind of reply you should make in a public issue tracker. It comes off as: "We're only interested in talking to people who are in San Francisco and are cool enough to hang out with us."
I read it less as that and more "you are embarrassing us by discussing our product's flaws in public. please bring this behind closed doors"
Except he's in SF.
Aphyr tests distributed systems to destruction. He seems to be really good at it. You've had an account here for nearly three years, and you write distributed software; it's fairly shocking to me that you're not familiar with his work. You should browse https://aphyr.com/tags/jepsen for a bit, to get a feel for what he does.
As an anecdotal aside, I tend to use aphyr's interactions with a development team as a bit of an indicator about the team's quality. A team that acknowledges the problems that he's finding and hurries to address them is probably a good one. A team that outright denies that the problems exist is a pretty poor one. Your responses to #513 (especially the nerd raging bit) aren't encouraging.