I actually read the thread in question--my take on it was that the original post was fairly dispassionate (the "game's" one "rule" had been broken, so s/he was stopping the "game"); the subsequent posters were (IMO) either snarky or making mountains out of molehills. (Clearly, other folx' MMV--but I've know the OP for a number of years, and I don't think that my reading (of the OP at least) is off-base....)