I think situation is not so bad ;) if we take under consideration that communication is between 17 years old student from small country and 35 years old father of two kids and successful enterpriser from NY ... different mentality, religion, culture, language, society, experience ...
What one can take as joke, another as attack.
Many times I want to say something, but I wrote something else ... I m not bad, but barriers ;)
I still think that if consider this, WP is nice place with high level of communication at all.

Funny is that just one day after Tom's post is whole my Twitter poisoned with mentioned issue.