I never said that the other guys article was reasonable, or even decently written. From my point of view, he's just the other side of the spectrum. As Antsan pointed out, his stuff is piqued with insults, and if you want to make a valid point, that generally doesnt help.
The problem I have with Kathy's thing is mainly that the part about critiques is just too broadly written, as in "Everyone that voices discontent with what I write.". Especially the line about there never being any evidence written. To me, something like that should not be your general attitude when you publicly post stuff.
I'm well aware, as Antsan also mentioned, that there are people out there definetly fitting the picture. People making multiple accounts to quite literally start a hatemob on people, doxing, insutls, threats, all the good stuff this morons like to fire at people who have a different opinion. But there are a equal number, if not more people, who actually reasonably point out issues and errors in peoples articles, and from what I read above, they get the same treatment as someone sceaming bloody murder.
And if nothing else, the statement that the second article made is true. You can't have it both ways. On one hand Dev's and writers, journalists and these people like to dance around and proclaim what poor sods they are for receiving bad treatment, and how hard the have it in "field x". But on the other hand they cant actually fucking come out and admit when they actually fucked up or failed. Not everyone disliking your stuff is out to gut you in a dark alleway, or is trying to ruin your entire freaking live. That's just hyperbole. But the general tone tends to be "Gamers are a collective bunch of organized trolls and haters."
I give her credit for mentioning some better examples at the bottom, and she is definetley not one of the bad examples. But "Decent people" tends to mean "People who have the same opinion as me."
It boils down to "Either you agree, or you're a Troll."
@Antsan, I want to admit that my view might be coloured by current events. But is it so freaking hard to point out that you're talking about a minority, and cut back on the whole "I'm dying for your sins!"-drama all the time?