I think it's a non issue. Three stooge inactive developers who tried and completely failed with XT now want Classic while the other 35 or more active core developers are getting on with there work and have no interest in dealing with these guys and the forum trolls. I predict this thread will soon fill up with answers from the trolls. All I can guess is these people think they were too late with Bitcoin and are now trying to bring down the price.

^^^ This! 
Whether they realize it or not, people supporting builds like XT and Classic are enemies of the Bitcoin state.
Maybe core is the one that needs to be doing the checkpointing?