Except for one small point - the whole point of the D&Dgate thing seems to not be about RPG.net as much as it is about companies both large and small having designers and publishers who seek to inject their political viewpoints into gaming through their games, as well as silence alternative viewpoints through social media attacks and boycotts.
I don't think the D&Dgate thing is a good idea (especially using that name), but sorry Mike, I think you're being disingenuous in your simplistic dismissal of the idea.
Well, I'm not talking specifically about D&Dgate, that's a different thread.
I think the whole phenomenon of social media attacks is horrific no matter who does it. Mobs used to have to find their own torches and pitchforks and get themselves to a gathering point. Now all they need is a keyboard.
This place reminds me of the 1988 Republican attacks on Michael Dukakis for being "a card carrying ACLU member." My reaction was, and still is, "Oh, so you think American civil liberties are a bad thing?"
Further, to quote the Bard,
"If the enemy is an ass and a fool and a prating
coxcomb, is it meet, think you, that we should also,
look you, be an ass and a fool and a prating
coxcomb? in your own conscience, now?"