In reply to Tomas M..

If you could, I want you to take a moment and think hard about whether you would have brought this up if he had said something just as passionately that you _agreed_ with, on this "WP sustainability" blog.

If you are reserving your outrage about ad hominem attacks or the (in)appropriateness of political speech JUST for people you disagree with, then that takes something away from your criticism.

I feel like it would actually be more appropriate to say "I like this plugin, I don't agree with his opinions about Trump" than to try to police his right to express a political opinion in the first place, since you can't reasonably represent yourself as a referee and a player at the same time.

This actually raises an interesting issue though: How DO we raise the level of debate in a decentralised way, without adopting rules with unforseen side-effects, or delegating the moderation of speech to some AI or a warehouse full of moderators in some far-flung country? I feel like if WordPress can solve this problem in a distributed fashion, this could be an awesome moment in history to release such a thing.