Maybe at some point a project exhausts whatever potential goodwill/snarklessness is available and just becomes an object of snark - and at that point and beyond

Maybe at some point a project exhausts whatever potential goodwill/snarklessness is available and just becomes an object of snark - and at that point and beyond, perhaps the benefits of the project having a reputation of being a snarkmagnet outweigh negatives of the inevitable snark it generates. Makes it a lousy, toxic topic for message boards but that seems a comparatively small price for a defense against the notion that Cryptocat is (or likely, ever will be) secure.