I actually enjoy these kinds of discussions, and I assume the purpose of the post is more so to spark discussion then it is to just see if someone else has done it. Even if someone else has done it in the past, what's the harm in making a new thread about it and reviving the discussion. If he had used the search feature and found an old thread, it would probably be difficult to get any more meaningful discussion in it as his posts would likely get lost in the mix of all the other posts already in there.

I think a lot of people are just worked up since there was a post on the very subject of the "harshness" of the community just recently that got quite a few replies. People probably have that kind of stuff in the forefront of their minds and are acting on it a bit more then they normally would because of it. Personally, and while I don't consider myself one of the "old school" for sure, I don't think this post warranted the response, but that's just my opinion.

More to the point, I think it would be fun to try, you could have them all different specs and really min max your buffage with the pallies to get the most out of your auras/blessings. It would definately be a melee group though, which is difficult but seems to be more and more of a side project for people these days (look up TDog and his dogs of war sometime).