There are a few things wrong with your statement here. You are trying to justify a fallacy of relevance with an appeal to ridicule and a strawman argument. To try to be clear, I can call anyone's comments silly, but that doesn't refute anything. Also, trying to claim another person's intent sure seems like misrepresenting the argument as if it's weaker than it actually is.
As a little disclaimer, I feel like noting, I haven't followed anyone's posts that closely. I view each argument as it should be viewed, a self-contained unit.
This is a much better argument. But I think you have strayed into "false dilemma" territory. Also, a borderline "appeal to the people" type of fallacy. To try to be clear, there is more middle ground here than what you have declared. Hyper-focused? Yeah, not really. Hyper maybe, but most of these threads aren't that focused.
As far as appealing to the people, the people can decide for themselves what's honest or not. Look all I'm trying to say here is let's stick to the meat of the subject matter. If we all sat here and tried to hold each other to their words we would just be going around in circles.
