The Ruby community respected his pseudonymity. Some of us already knew his name.
> many such people in the Ruby community.
In which case, this presumes that the values you share with the Ruby community are positive - otherwise you would be talking about this heterogeneous group in a generally negative way.
This would appear to beg the very question under contention - that the values of the Ruby community are not in fact positive, but toxic; unless you wish to argue that a community can simultaneously profess positive values and still exhibit toxic behaviour.
One position offers historical (and current) examples; the other offers an impressive feat of linguistic gymnastics.
I remember _why and I definitely don't remember him as toxic.