"Bad faith"
@Ruakh: I have little to say on this matter, except that I personally don't think we should call other editors assholes. Oh, and populi is a genitive, but ad must take an accusative, so you were looking for populum.
Re: calling editors assholes: Well, if it makes you feel better, I really said only that he's frequently an asshole. ("Jerk", however, I posit without qualification.) And I wouldn't have said it if I thought Ivan would mind: I'm pretty sure he's aware that he's frequently an asshole, and he seems unbothered by it. (Of course, it's hard to check, since in the very act of asking someone if they're O.K. with being called an asshole, you're tacitly calling them one.)
Re: populum: Thanks. I thought the anon's populi sounded wrong, but for some reason I copied it anyway.