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Humans make mistakes across the board, including at much going in the church (imperfect sermons; imperfect teaching efforts, etc). It doesn't mean that either we stop those practices altogether or that God can't work (at times) His perfection thru us, does it? I addressed this already, in effect, at the end of post #188...where I moved from God to man as God's people engaged in examples of righteous sarcasm and righteous ridicule/mocking (and I certainly know there's more of the unrighteous kind) 1 Kings 18:

First of all what Elijah was doing was not in any way shape or form similar to what's going on in this thread. Attempting to compare the petty sniping going on here with the miracles performed by Elijah is silly.

I think I've said my piece. You've studiously avoided the general tone and tenor of the thread and instead have focused on finding a couple of examples to justify the bad behavior here. If you want to continue with the notion that sarcasm, ridicule and belittlement are fruits of the spirit of Christ than so be it. I'll leave you with one final scripture:

1Co 13:4 Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant,
1Co 13:5 does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered,
1Co 13:6 does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
1Co 13:7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Yes, it's both love and truth. And for some people at some time, the dimension of "tough love" is important.

To quote part of the passage you just cited: 1Co 13:4, 6 Love...rejoices with the truth

(And we've seen plenty of truth on this thread...I would hope you & others would rejoice in that like 1 Cor. 13:6 says)