Nal said that qi (your clan) was jumping on this topic to defend OP only because he's in qi. This isn't a personal attack against you or anyone in your clan, but your clan in general, and is also related to the topic on hand.
it appeared to me that he was using the reputation of my clan to refute my, newspeed's, and espio's collective arguments
If you guys didn't want negative attention, you shouldn't pull stunts like this.
Why, it's not our fault, you guys provoked Newspeed. What did you expect?
You don't throw a rock at a lion and act surprised when the lion bites your head off, do you?