Welllll, yes and no.

A lot of discussions on Medium are about people's rights and privileges. A lot of people who engage in these discussions are interested parties--it is their rights at issue. And in these cases, presumptively, their feelings are eminently relevant to the need for the rights.

Yes, yes, it's still an anecdotal account. But reliable anecdotes are informative--and what anecdote is more reliable than a first-person one?

So while feelings and thoughts are different, feelings have relevance to a lot of discussions on Medium in ways that aren't true in other places. Maybe you don't need to worry about feelings since you're a penguin and have bigger things to worry about like leopard seals. But in a lot of cases they actually are relevant.

This doesn't mean that people employ their feelings in the proper places in their arguments. Mostly not, alas. Nonetheless, in principle, the relevance is often there.