There's the predictable "You're being rude so that somehow invalidates other people being rude too" strawman response, but that's an empty argument and is also predicated on ignoring that the dev's behavior happened before I even posted in this thread so they set the precedent before me. I'm also not being very rude, I'm being blunt to a fault but I'm not insulting anyone and my responses aren't disproportionate.
Insulting someone's work is insulting them.
What, he snapped after pages of people posting the same complaint in an increasingly offensive manner got him ticked off?? What a sham.
The dev is also the one sharing the fruit of his own time and labour. Yes there's a massive difference between some freeloaders coming into the thread being insulting and the guy who's providing the service we're all enjoying.
Volunteer teams should be held to a much more accommodating standard than a commercial or professional one should. Any time he spends on this game is a donation to the community, he's not going to continue donating that time if all he gets for it are insults. Believe it or not you can share your critiques without being a dick about it.
Seriously if you can't moderate your criticism then you should keep it to yourself. It doesn't matter how well intentioned it is, that exact kind of shit is why we keep losing devs off of this site. Since this dev isn't active elsewhere afaik, that could easily mean we'd lose the whole project.
He'll have been the third dev that got ran off of this project from this sometimes shit hole of a site. If you seriously think the dev is the problem when he's potentially the third one that we've ran off then you're experiencing a serious cognitive dissonance. There's a serious problem with the culture of this site, where either a dev generates a cult following that deflects or answers almost any critique or the community quickly gets too toxic for them to regularly engage in.