I disagree. I think that commenting on tone is likely to earn negative XP, but I believe that it is still an important way that the monastery self-corrects. Personally, I appreciate it (once I have had time to regain a cool head) when people (especially people I respect or trust) communicate to me that my tone was offensive in some way.

I don't think that membership in pedagogues or even gods places a person somehow above the need to be corrected when they are rude.

Looking at shmem's post, and taking it in context with other posts by shmem, I think that jzb was wrong in interpreting it as having an unfriendly tone, but that is just my opinion.