Before a consensus forms that someone should be strung up or put down for this, I'd like a clearcut statement from the proported victim that he found the criticism so hard-hitting that he just couldn't take it any more.

Because I found the criticism absurd. I suppose there are a lot of people here with high-strung egos who would like to suppress opposition in general, but I never thought of Stskeeps as one of them.

I personally thought the petition thread was dumb and I criticised it harshly enough that a moderator issued a warning I thought was partly aimed at me, but I didn't feel sorry for Stskeeps -- I just felt sorry for sentient beings.