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This could be covered if there was a principle to respect the man in the arena. That should also discourage you-reinvented-the-wheel pile-ons.

The Ratatouille critic put this well - "We risk very little, yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgement. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read."

When you've done as much as him any kind of ego that you may possess becomes justified.

The admin has already decreed exactly that. People just love to whine.

Or, for that matter, just come together in community and crack jokes we can all agree on, at the expense of someone we all know. Call it A New Kind of Socializing.