followed by positive comments. And someone comes in and says something snide? That could have been kept to themselves?

Yes, that spoiled it. Not too often people have written about someone, or an experience in a completely positive light during the Second Primary War.

So for someone to waltz in and pull that, yeah, that makes me sick. Just because this is the Internet doesn't mean you get to say things that you wouldn't say to the bell-ringer at the grocery store.