it was tongue in cheek as his list of requirements implied somehow this topic is any different from any other threads on FR.
I thought your comment might be t-i-c although I answered straight.
It's not a list of requirements, so much as a plea for common decency and civility. The Apple threads had become different -- a battleground. The trolls had disrupted the Apple threads to the point where Jim Robinson himself had to step in and threaten a few of them. It was disheartening to see FReepers writing such things, and embarrassing as well.
If Swordmaker's entreaties to good manners have any positive effect, I don't see any problem with them.