Comment by koliber
8 years ago
It needs to be clarified because "purge" seemed like a very charged word which was meant to convey more emotion than information. I interpreted it as a double-entendre. The original commenter defended their use of the word but only in a way to stir the situation more.
I read it as the word used to describe bulimic emesis. The open source community has ingested something undesirable, and now it needs to induce vomiting.
We don't have to leap right to the edge of the mass graves whenever someone elects to use their thesaurus. Or would that actually be doubleplusgood, if people were to suffer ad hominem attacks based on their vocabulary choices? If you're headed to the bottom of the slippery slope anyway, you might as well grease yourself up and grab a boulder, right?
Was going into personal attacks of the other poster and Horseshoe Theory supposed to be a more measured and informative take on the discussion at hand?
No.
Then it is pretty hypocritical to criticize someone else for injecting "emotion rather than information" into the conversation, don't you think?