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by alephnerd 326 days ago
Based on the thread, they were doxxed by that troll.
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Defamation lawsuit sounds like a perfectly valid avenue if that is the case.
Lawyers take effort, time, and difficulty.

It's much easier to shut down a project instead.

Alternatively, people can instead choose to NOT be dicks to people who are altruistically developing stuff for no compensation and the net benefit of our industry.

I suspect the person who did this to the maintainer is probably mentally unwell. They likely do this to other people.