First person that comes to mind is LiteCoinGuy. He made a lot of helpful threads e.g. the hardware wallet-thread.
Is he not reputable ?
Ah yes, LiteCoinGuy. I have questioned his support, but he has failed to answer. I was talking more in the lines of DannyHamilton, DeathAndTaxes, tomatocage, etc. However, a lot of these members have not clarified their stance, or are choosing to ignore the debate (publicly at least) entirely.
and btw. that is one of the points, that make this discussion so ridiculous: all this conspiracy theories and calling everybody a shill or sockpuppet , that is not the same opinion even from respected members(and yes, it is on both sides)
This is not a conspiracy theory. I was talking about new accounts popping up and rushing into XT discussions showing off support. Most of those are nothing other than shills.
As far as if heard, there is a large block only version of BitcoinXT. I haven't set up my full node yet, but I will go for that.
This is because a few people caught on that those patches as they call them, are bad. It would be hard though in the future to introduce something that would disregard/make such clients obsolete.
Update: Some corrections.