Fair, and I think I’d have gone that direction if it wasn’t a slack channel where everyone was invited to, and then questioned if they decided to leave. It was also a very noisy channel where it was disrupting my work.

I didn’t just throw this into some channel in which I wasn’t invited or anything. I actually felt like I wasn’t allowed to leave, which is why other NDs privately thanked me afterwards.

I can ignore the ignorable, but if you’re going to hunt me down if I ignore it (like they were doing), then I needed to speak up in order for it to stop.

Typically I do just what you’ve described, just kinda ignore it.