"David Looser" wrote in
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Well, if you equate "a predictable response from the same
gaggle of familiar names" with being a lynch mob. To me
the term "lynch mob" implies a group conspiring to
destroy their victim, and I haven't seen that, or
anything close, here.

It appears that Keith is characterizing the people on this group who unlike
him actually understand how things work as a lynch mob. I don't know how far
we want to go in the direction of talking up his pity party.