> I've seen plenty of harassment which in principle insults code. It easy to say things like "Part X of the code base is a piece of * and should be deleted", or

> I've seen plenty of harassment which in principle insults code. It easy to say things like "Part X of the code base is a piece of * and should be deleted", or "Recent PR 1234 is awful" -- no-one's name is mentioned, but everyone knows who is in charge of X, or who wrote PR 1234. I think this is more a matter of tone being hard to convey over text than such statements actually being harassment. Technical debt is more often than not nobody's fault in particular, yet often elicits similar commentary - and at least in in-person conversations, it's almost always clear that the commentary is directed at the code itself, not at the author - and hell, quite a few programmers will readily say such things about their own code (myself included).