I'm drawing a lens on people who seem to be much more prone to bullying on the internet than they would be in real life. It's not about defending this choumichou guy, I could care less. It's about how we, as a community, uphold respect even when someone else doesn't return the grace.

People can do whatever they want. I won't apologize for speaking out when I see things start to go sour. This is my community, too, and the self-righteous and thoroughly elitist side of it is, in my opinion, poisonous to the better 99%. No, I'm not saying Machka is the worst 1%, she is almost always in the good half.

But when it suddenly becomes ok to bully people into admitting they're a troll, or be subject to punishment by ridicule, well, I'm not gonna sit around and snicker with everyone else.