If that one place is a bug tracker, then, yes. It's anti-social because the intent of linking to it directly was meant to encourage a response from the Internet

If that one place is a bug tracker, then, yes. It's anti-social because the intent of linking to it directly was meant to encourage a response from the Internet. Hell, if some context was provided, and then it was linked to, that'd be a different matter. But linking to it directly with context was clearly meant to illicit a reactionary public response. A bug tracker is not a forum for public debate over a feature. All those responses go into a lot of people's email boxes. It's annoying to get all those email where every other person is a new poster looking to add their two cents, and I'd dare suggest that anyways thinks otherwise isn't on a mailing list or on the receiving end of bug reports.