One of the most important parts of the article is a footnote:
NOTE: All signs of good faith communication can be "faked" in bad faith.
Basically, in modern online mob communication, the winning side defines what "good faith" and "bad faith" are. The winning side defines a vague code of conduct, cloaks themselves in "goodness" and then openly uses the "bad faith" slander against anyone who disagrees on any issue (even purely technical ones).
I have sometimes seen rules that don't try to spell out every specific,
because most civil conversations don't require knowing exactly where the line is between good behavior and bad,
so you can get riiight up to it, then say in bad faith,
"but I was obeying the rules!"
Rather, I consider vaguer rules like "don't be a jerk" to be a feature, and one can use context clues to see what the community considers jerkiness
NOTE: All signs of good faith communication can be "faked" in bad faith.
Basically, in modern online mob communication, the winning side defines what "good faith" and "bad faith" are. The winning side defines a vague code of conduct, cloaks themselves in "goodness" and then openly uses the "bad faith" slander against anyone who disagrees on any issue (even purely technical ones).