To me, it was pretty clearly pointing towards his previous post, as his own sentences from it:
-"Improvements can be made", and
-"If you have more suggestions for the current version, I invite you to the UI suggestions section"
...were paraphrased with a mocking tone, only with the "TW" label instead of his username, only 4 and 5 posts after his, respectively.
That being said, this is still mild stuff and that's why i just simply wrote a post here, so it stays that way and doesen't repeat, at least not in this form of what i understood it as.
It's one thing to make fun of a dev and his answers, but then at least be honest about your intentions when called out on it.
If i am wrong, however, and both of you are being honest (like Lord Grindelvald was), then MRay will read this and be sure he wasn't personally ridiculed - no harm done, other than me falsely calling something out, in which case i would apologize (but as of now i am not convinced one bit for reasons stated two paragraphs ago).
If you are not, the verbal warning from my previous post in this thread stands as a reminder for what is not desirable, in case it repeats, which would make it not be "mild stuff" anymore, and further action has to take place.
You misunderstand my intent. I was not dishonest in what I said about it. I stated here that I was making fun of what MRay said, but not the individual himself:
If somehow making fun of what someone has said is equivalent to attacking, flaming, and making someone extremely uncomfortable, then I don't know why someone would ever participate around on the internet.
But I am not attacking him. I'm principally attacking TW's communication, but if you want to look at the nitty-gritty of it, sure I'm also attacking the dry statement he made. I'm sure he's a great guy, but most of the developers that make statements seem to be strictly limited in what they can say. I do not put the blame on him, I put the blame on the company/management for their overall communication policy. Duh's communication was similar when responding to the community roadmap. People made jokes about his communication style, including me, yet this was not deemed inappropriate behavior, nor seen as a personal attack upon Duh. I don't see what the problem is now, all of a sudden? I do not see how making a lighthearted joke about someone's statement is "flaming and ganging up on a developer" as you put it. If you mock or make fun of what someone says, generally it's not taken as a personal attack on their character, rather, a tease and/or feedback criticizing the statement itself. I did not see myself as attacking MRay.
Generally, I make my humor only half-serious if at all. I put the username as "TW" because I was mocking the general way that TW responds to questions or feedback, within the context of the previous statement that MRay made that had the same overall communication style. It was supposed to be a generic dialogue criticizing TW's overall communication policy with relevant humor. I explicitly put "TW" to make a negative statement about the company, not about the developer. I don't attack individuals in organizations I don't like, unless they are in full charge and responsibility for the problems, like the leadership in TW. I dislike TW, but as I said before, that does not mean that I dislike individuals. It means I dislike TW as an organization. Just like if I say I dislike the Iranian government, I am not attacking and speaking ill of Iranian people, I am speaking ill about their overall government and leadership.
I apologize to you MRay, if my words felt unwelcoming and rude. My joke was poking fun at your general communication style, as well as criticizing TW's overall communication doctrine, particularly under the assumption that you're not allowed to give more details during your statement. Even if my assumption is untrue, and I'm essentially just criticizing your communication at this point, that does not mean that I dislike you or see you as the enemy. I think I can respectfully critique that your communication in this instance feels dry and corporate without it being a personal insult or it suggesting that I think you're a lacking developer. We all have faults, we can't harshly insult mistakes we ourselves have also made.
You too are free to report whatever post of mine makes you feel that way, in which case someone (not me) will handle it appropriately.
It wasn't a matter-of-fact statement, it was an analogy to your argument that my joke was naturally supposed to make MRay "uncomfortable".
I hope I've explained myself here (mouthful, I know) that I don't have ill intent towards individual developers. It's just light-hearted humor that may have come out too personally harsh on my part.