JollyGood, to be fair you did attack his reputation even if it wasn't a negative feedback.  I don't know the circumstances behind the neutral you left, as I haven't looked into it yet, but something like that would probably ruffle the feathers of quite a few members who've been around since 2014 and have a lot of positive feedback.  And you know as well as I do that this isn't the first time one of your feedbacks has drawn some controversy--there have been numerous examples of that, and it's why I excluded you from my trust list a while back.

BenCodie appears to have the type of temperament that members like TECSHARE had, where he would defend himself against any slight, however minor and no matter who it came from.  If you're going to continue to leave neutral/negative feedback for reasons like BenCodie's case here, you've got to expect some blowback.  And your best course of action is probably to NOT escalate the issue by creating threads like this one.  He's got a decent reputation and a track record of positive feedback with supporting reference threads; you're a relatively newer member with some positive trust given for your efforts to call out the bad actors here, but no trade history that I could see.

So I've got no issues with either of you, except that you might be just a tad bit overzealous in your crusade to clean up the forum (which I myself appreciate, btw).  But again, I haven't looked into the details of the reason for your neutral on him, the issue with Whirlwind--but I will check it out.