I am starting to think there is just a pressure release valve somewhere in the playerbase, where all the pent up frustration and disappointment over failure of their characters' lives and storylines builds up, and sometimes it just needs to be released, or sometimes something triggers the release of it all at once.
The log posted hits home for a lot of people, I think, because we have had similar goals as the spies, or similar approaches to our own goals, but we experienced failure. We know, intellectually, that there is are clear justifications for success the involved spies had vs. our own failures (roll call, tektolnes' support, Allanak's support, etc), but emotionally, we still feel like this is an example of staff bias somehow.
I am trying to say that the community's discontent over this log is more of an irrational, emotionally based one than an intellectual one. A lot of us, including me of course because I can only speak for myself, don't really have an intellectual debate with the log, we just have an emotional one, where we feel like "it sucks ass to keep losing, I keep losing in this game and I never win, and oh, here's an example of someone who won, but I'm not them and I may never be them." It just sucks, you know?
Edit: Let me clarify. It sucks, no matter what, to read about other peoples' success when you have never felt it. It's an immediate emotional response to seeing someone else having it better than you. I am NOT saying armageddon sucks (so don't go there, Nyr). I'm just describing a human emotional response to defeat, and I am pointing out that the log triggered that emotional response in a lot of us because it reminded us of our defeats. That's all. I'm trying to explain why the community is reacting the way it is.