My reasoning, which you may not agree with, is that I think that I have seen pron say unkind words before and I thought I had a better chance of persuading Steve to let it go. (Sorry pron, that’s how I was thinking of it. No, I have no specific examples.)

The fact is that every thread about Zig is filled with this kind of battle, and I’m tired of it, and it doesn’t represent any community, it’s so much worse on HN than anywhere else, and it’s all just defensiveness and crap.