I think this is correct. Here is my somewhat simplified but as far as I know not too far from the truth version of what happened based on following from the sid

I think this is correct. Here is my somewhat simplified but as far as I know not too far from the truth version of what happened based on following from the sidelines of Twitter and HN, please correct me if I'm wrong (feel free to adjust my score as well, I don't care about that, but tell me what I got wrong): (Oh yes, as I mentioned to someone else earlier today I'm so utterly fed up about how we treat certain topics. I actually respect actual climate scientists but I don't to same degree respect people who are out to punish climate heretics.) As far as I can see Bob was everyones uncle, generally popular, not infallible but widely respected until he did the grave sin of not paying enough respect to climate scientists or something to that effect. In fact there is a chance he just asked questions, but that is a sin so grave it got its own derogatory term, JAQ-ing. As everyone should know by know asking questions isn't good scientific behaviors and everyone who ever does it only ever do it to it to derail constructive discussions. After that he became pretty clueless and his books became dumb and useless. All he knew about programming is wrong and it turns out he never helped any project.