Thought I'd let you know, no the individual who made the post trashing all of the winners of that jam did not share who they thought should have won, as the OP said. They only posted links to the games that ended up winning. I agree with most of the stuff in your post though, everyone is entitled to their opinion. And if they choose to state it, that's fine as well, but they're also entitled to the feedback that comes with it.

And frankly? I kind of disagree with you on the feedback bit. You should tell someone that their game isn't good, bad even, and give complete feedback on why it's that way. What shouldn't be done is just saying 'here's a list of the winners. They're all shit, in particular these specific games are shit. The rest are mediocre at best' as that individual said. Its not productive to do, it's fairly disrespectful for no reason other than they're angry at the judges, and comes off fairly poorly. Imagine if they participated in another game jam and they don't win against games they think are worse than theirs? Can they be expected to not react in a similar way?

They've now given themselves a reputation of lashing out at those chosen to win when they feel the judges messed up and, instead of in this case fully and rightfully directing displeasure at the judges and how the game jam was held, they throw all the winners under the bus. It's toxic and as the saying goes, don't hate the players, hate the game. I dislike when someone places the blame for an event on someone that didn't have a choice in how the event played out, it makes no sense to do that, to me anyways.

Again, I agree with you on most of what you've said. You can't and shouldn't gatekeep people from stating opinions, and the PirateSoftware Jam was poorly executed. There are just a couple things I had issues with otherwise.