Curious, isn't it. You're not supposed to get 'personal' if it's a critical comment, but if it's praise then a different standard altogether applies.
(Thinks. . . . the label 'sycophant' had an airing yesterday on another Dunnunda thread when a Woomera was applauded. Just don't have an attitude at all and see what happens to the debate. It used to be bracing and robust in another more constituted forum when the Fred Dalys and the Eddie Wests and Clyde Camerons declaimed and stuck it into the silver-tails on the other side. Today it rotates those 'comrades' in their graves.)