It&#x27;s actually a social power attack, not a personal one. The &quot;attack&quot; (it&#x27;s very hard to find any language in the post that could be considered an attack) is that patio11&#x27;s advice is not great <i>for this specific case</i>. It may look like a personal attack because why would someone post off-site just to comment on another person&#x27;s comments?<p>The answer is, social power and the threat of in-group reprisals. If you challenge an extremely popular person&#x27;s opinion, the in-group will attack you, because you basically just challenged their whole group mentality that this person is implicitly trustworthy and correct no matter what.<p>However, both of them have potentially bad advice, because they have a very small portion of a much longer story, and they both think they have the solution to something which may be much more complex. patio11&#x27;s is more &quot;nuclear&quot;, while the open mic author&#x27;s is more &quot;hiring is difficult and the incident may not be as horrible as it sounds so let&#x27;s see if disciplinary action helps&quot;. Neither may apply, depending on all the left-out details.