Folks in the hacker community have a long history of being too forgiving of what should be hard-avoid character flaws.

That's a big part of why these reputation-erasing, behind-closed-door censorship networks exist to begin with.

One of infosec's biggest twitter cancel-brigade queens was also the most prolific troll in GNAA and had a long, public history of grooming underage males but everyone looks the other way and celebrates her accomplishments. She literally got a job on Biden's campaign and yet barely anyone talks about it.