Comment by saagarjha
5 years ago
I think there are a number of ways the maintainer could have protected themselves without making it actively worse for the community. I would even predict that this decision makes them likely to get even more abuse, though of course I would never condone that.
> I think there are a number of ways the maintainer could have protected themselves without making it actively worse for the community.
If said community was the one causing the problem, what would be the point of that?
The community is not a monolithic entity.
If there are bad apples in the community then the good apples need to speak up and reject them.
Otherwise the bad apples are the apples.