It's related. There are a lot of gentlefailers and namespace exchange people who have been grudgy against the original ToT mod/the recipient due to their conversational style. Some nonnies (one really pissed off nonny with a lot of free time?) admitted several times they hated that when they asked if ship-matching could be added (or whatever they wanted to change) the mod gave them a one-word "No" instead of a long dithering paragraph about their reasons, and they did this frequently. Given a chance to wank about this person, the people who've been BEC for years about them jumped in with both feet. Had it been any other recipient, especially someone considered a Good Egg, there would have been far more sympathy for the misunderstanding. Instead it blew up because many of the nonnies involved don't like RC, and some were grudgewanking against Ashling for other past arguments like kimara did in namespace, and who knows who's been nursing grudges against some of the other players.

tl;dr The two wanks are the same wank because the MFD was >50% grudgewank from the start about the previous stance on ship-matching in ToT