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Comments like this are exactly the reason why we got into this mess in the first place. If anything, please take this as a lesson for the future.

It wasn't a random person. A random person would be tolerable. If you haven't been on the receiving end of that sort of abuse you probably can't imagine what it feels like. But if you are paying any sort of attention to the world, you would realize that to most people it feels really bad to get a lot of abusive and hurtful comments from strangers about something you've put a lot of work into.

They tend to go hand in hand, don't they? When something isn't interesting anymore, the negatives seem much more ominous. The benefits don't seem to be worth it.

Now he has the best of both worlds, deservedly so. He created and was the primary author of a substantial, influential project and that will never be taken from him. Yet he also gets to move on to other things without it dragging him down in perpetuity.