Handling attacks on a community

Negative. As any good engineer will concur, the above is a generalization. The actual preferred properties very much depend on the purpose and project at hand - neither is "better" per se.

On topic though, having admittedly read only a little bit of the presented material, I do anyway find the so called "offender" articulate, intelligent, capable and disposed to reason and arguments. People don't go to such extreme lengths and cause so much noise for nothing, much less out of some childish malice. Usually it's because some deeply held and fundamental value has been profoundly violated. To me it doesn't seem like a bit of ego was bruised. It seems more like a crusade.

Having also read some of the related material outlined (such as the mentioned blog post https://www.preining.info/blog/2018/09/sharp-did-it-again/), I can't say I disagree with his position either. Much of the "group" response comes across as passive aggressive at best, glossing over the issues presented and ignoring the arguments, and after failing at that, attempting to silence and ban the dissenters presenting uncomfortable opinions. Which is exactly the argument that the so called "offender" seems to present. And which, at least to me, seems like it extracted exactly the kind of response the group got from this individual. :)