Anonymous: But it seems like you define "bad behavior" as including comments like "This writer is awful" or "This editor doesn't know what they're doing", etc. You can go back into old letters pages and find today's creators and editors aiming those same sort of harsh personal attacks at their predecessors! I think the difference today is that because the targets of those attacks don't have control over the forums where they are expressed, they perceive it as harsher.

brevoortformspring:

I don’t think that expressing a negative opinion about a book or a story is bad behavior. I do think it becomes bad behavior when it’s expressed as, say, “That hack Bendis”—something that would never have been printed on a letters page ever. And then, there are harsher statements: “That fucking hack Remender”, or “Slott should die”, or “I want to rape Hickman’s mother”. That sort of thing is never appropriate, no matter how much you may not have liked a comic book somebody has written or worked on.