The tone of this article makes it pretty difficult to have a substantive discussion, but I do think there are a few good points. Primarily that users would bene

The tone of this article makes it pretty difficult to have a substantive discussion, but I do think there are a few good points. Primarily that users would benefit from a deprecation path. I think there's also a mostly unspoken idea in there that it is really difficult to address socially sensitive issues in an email listserv format. Finally, I do think there's something to the Munchausen's by proxy argument. It's a good metaphor, but an inflammatory one, and I wish it were handled with more sensitivity because of that.