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> They were hateful and virtrolous

Who's they? Most of PR commenters were courteous. The last few were rude, but so was the fafhrd91. https://gist.github.com/mafrasi2/debed733781db4aba2a52620b67...

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> Please just stop writing Rust. You do not respect semver, you do not respect soundness, so why are you using a language predominantly based around doing these things right?

Cherry-picking a comment doesn't give a good representation of the community. The GP is right - most comments were courteous. The point is that saying "the community" was hateful and vitriolic needs more evidence than a couple of bad eggs, because those exist everywhere.

This was posted after fafhrd91 was rude. Also...

> The last few were rude, but so was the fafhrd91

The parent comment still stands. Whether the maintainer was in the right or in the wrong, whether they were being a jerk or not, if he wasn’t listening to the community why not just fork the code? GitHub’s UI makes that super easy.

Just because it's easy to fork in the UI, doesn't mean it's easy to get people to switch. Some people are actually concerned about the community as a whole, rather than their own projects.

He explicitly made the repo private over handing it to someone else.

https://gist.github.com/pcr910303/d7722a26499d0e9d2f9034a06f...

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