[imtringued]

Azer Koçulu has never been a scourge to the NPM ecosystem. Nobody forced anyone to use left-pad. The reason it got included in so many projects is due to messy transitive dependencies.

Jon Schlinkert on the other hand is going out of his way to produce these micro libraries and then include them in his widely used legitimate projects (handlebars-helpers) with zero willingness to simply integrate them into the projects that actually use them. Here is the deal: Do you want to be trolled? Then use handlebars-helpers, if not, then stop using the damn library.

[dkersten]

On top of that, he only ran the script that NPM themselves provided him. Yes, the micro-package situation was absurd, but Azer Koçulu did nothing wrong. NPM did by forcibly taking his package, and then by providing him with scripts that were clearly unsafe to run. That Azer Koçulu got any blame for this is ridiculous.

Jon Schlinkert is a typical marketing A-hole. He should be banned from NPM and Github IMHO.