richard feldman, evan's colleague, is not exactly a nice person on the internet. There are several times where he's ranted or had a temper tantrum for no particularly good reason.

now he alone does not make up the "community", but he's certainly a prominent member of it.

I've seen people banned from official forums because they disagreed with design decisions. And several threads locked with messages like "oh yeah, haha, we don't really want you to talk about that" (https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/elm-0-19-released-what-has-... for instance)

And the github forum rules are a little "threatening" (https://github.com/elm/forum-rules/blob/master/README.md).