If you respect a [developer], you talk about the [code]; if not, you psychoanalyze the [developer].
... if you respect a writer, then you talk about the work. If you disdain the writer, then you try to psychoanalyze the writer and figure out why would he write this. ... If they mention my work at all, which they rarely do, it’s to dismiss it and to psychoanalyze me, which they are incapable of doing ... They have no idea what I’m talking about.
A lot of criticism is like, including project criticism. Via Critics, community and 'Ender's Game': An interview with Orson Scott Card | Deseret News.
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