I always wondered what would be of the perception of the Scala community if leadership had just outright banned people around a decade (?) ago when all this drama began?

I knew the perception of this community was particularly bad when even members of the silent majority of Scala programmers - those people I knew in school and work but who never tweeted or blogged - would casually mention to me how Scala's community is full of assholes. That perception stuck around longer than warranted.

Were the contributions of some of these members - aggressively negative, yet technical smart - worth it in the end?

And now the history is so long and complicated that a new generation of Scala members want explanations that would undoubtedly lead to more drama and grief. So leadership rightfully ignores their requests and gets attacked again.

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I believe Scala leadership should just pull the trigger and if we lose some would-be brilliant members then so be it. I just want everyone to just be sane and happy and to move forward. And I wish that the people who keep promising to leave would just keep their promise.