Well ok, but the OP was also an inconvenienced revenue passenger, and I read the post as saying the only other ECs were middle seats (the post said middle row, but I guessed a typo - perhaps not). It is not clear to me that the standbys were inconvenienced revenue passengers - standby covers a lot of situations. If the only other ECs were middle seats then I can understand the OP saying no. If the standbys were not IROPs, then I feel the ire was justified.