Re: Mod note
I've been a mod for almost three years, a member for five, and this is the calmest "frenzy" I can recall in quite some time.
Look, the issue at hand isn't that the mods want you to agree with everyone here who's taking a harder line than you; the problem is that the language you use ("pitch-forks," "lighting torches," "frenzy," "stampeding") characterizes other commenters as irrational and hotheaded -- and therefore, people whose opinions should be dismissed out of hand. It's one thing to say, "I personally don't think this is as big a deal as the other people in this thread think it is," completely another to say, "I don't think this is a big deal and the other people in this thread are oversensitive and should be ignored."