I have grown extremely weary at the level of discourse that this whole situation has provoked - the linked post is one ad hominem after another! What is this supposed to accomplish? Hopefully I can get the people I'm criticizing to change their ways by making them feel really bad about themselves? By telling them they aren't visionaries, they are semi-colons, they are arrogant, sloppy, lazy? It's destructive, self-indulgent, and completely unnecessary.
I upvoted you. This whole semicolon war is the most banal and self-aggrandizing conflict I've seen in a while, rife with as much vanity and childishness a the ``blogosphere'' allows, as evidenced by this post. Can we move on, please?
At least everyone acknowledged that the editor war was an inside joke, I would gladly have an editor thread every week on HN over this.
