You mentioned context, and my OP was certainly written within the context of this thread. Monks were mentioning things like "/mgs gods", "a reply to Co-rion would have sufficed", and basically saying that accessing one's inbox is easy to do. It's not hard to take the general case (the first part of the paragraph in my OP) and then use this thread as an example of how the general case might apply. Although with that said I will admit that combining the general case and the example into one paragraph had the unintended consequence of blurring the line between the two.

Regarding "apologist", dictionaries cover definitions, not connotations. If you search for "apologist" on Google News it should quickly become apparent that it is almost always used in a negative way (i.e. with negative connotations).

Update: And yes, it does seem that we are in agreement. Which makes a lot more sense to me as we tend to agree on issues like this more than disagree. It's threads like these that actually make me appreciate The Monastery. I mean, if discussions like this, patching up misunderstandings, etc. cannot happen then it's not really much of a community.