Being technically wrong and unproductive during a technical argument should not warrant being insulted.

But It would surely suffice to prevent a demand for a public apology from the exasperated party who was on the right side of the argument ; or at least not before the insulted party having issued an apology for being wrong and uncooperative in the first place.

When CoC have the effect of punishing volunteer work for not being nice/polite/SFW during an argument, regardless of who was technically right, this is putting form over substance.

This is a stance that seems balanced toward corporate friendliness. But I believe that the kernel benefits more from being a community/volunteer oriented project than pandering to corporate culture of niceness over anything else.

Losing BcacheFS over this would be a shame.