There is no linkage between your anecdote and the linux kernel development community. This could just as well have been posted in a discussion about: IRC cultur

There is no linkage between your anecdote and the linux kernel development community. This could just as well have been posted in a discussion about: IRC culture, your distro community, internet culture or anything else. Unrelated to your post: When you live and work intimately with people you know on a public mailing list it you will have friction. There are way to many people self inserting themselves as "victims" in online conversations without any knowledge about the relationship between the conversation partners.