I hear that and that's all good, but (and this is to both sides of this, um, geek war) it's still really very uncool to punish everyone who has absolutely nothing to do with this.

It seems like there should have been some other recourse to take than (to one side) rampaging the forum and (to the other side) locking every single thread.

This is what politics must be like in Kazazhstan.