So as you can see in the original article, the "bad cops" here were reason for Linus not to examine his own behaviour. That only happened because the other side

So as you can see in the original article, the "bad cops" here were reason for Linus not to examine his own behaviour. That only happened because the other side had bad cops as well. In other words: at least in this case (and in mine as well), it only worked to achieve the opposite effect from what's intended.