I think hounding and insulting Linus does comes at least a bit from self protection. I can just assume the amount of wacky ideas he might get on daily basis, th

I think hounding and insulting Linus does comes at least a bit from self protection. I can just assume the amount of wacky ideas he might get on daily basis, that would have little or no value in the product. Being aggressive about low quality ideas is to limit the input that is wasting his time. And to end the discussion and not to waste more time on explaining why he doesn't want to consider that any longer than he already has. Just trying to understand why he behaves as he does.