This discussion needs to happen here because less people read in reputation, and wouldn't you know it that also serves their goal of having even less people consider these arguments by moving the debate to reputation even thought it clearly applies here.
Fair enough, we might want then open Cats-vs-Dog thread in Meta, without hijacking every single post: I seriously expect to write/read about OP in here, nowhere OP wrote "hey let's do this change if you like Lauda, else let's do this other change if you like OG"
Hijacking at a certain point might be considered on the same level than spam/OT.
It is kind of hard to have a civil discussion when not having one serves one of the parties more than having one. This is again a fundamental flaw with this system. There is no real accountability for these people once they gain a certain amount of control, then we need a whole fucking blowout like this that ends up creating divisions to obtain redress when we could have just started with some simple universal guidelines to avoid all of this in the first place.