This goes all the way back to the 1990s at least. I had it happen to me when I was a college student. I spent a bunch of time at one point writing a linux ker

This goes all the way back to the 1990s at least. I had it happen to me when I was a college student. I spent a bunch of time at one point writing a linux kernel module to support an audio chip. All the code was working great, but I had never submitted before and had some indenting and formatting issues. The maintainer of that area just went to town flaming me over and over and over again on the list even though it was trivial to fix the formatting issues. Somebody else had to write that driver again later probably. I just kept a fork of the kernel that I had my code in for a while as the guy was so toxic I knew I wanted nothing to do with him ever again. Sometimes I have a theory that for a long time these people gravitated to open source projects partly because they had such toxic personality issues they couldn't function in a team environment in a company where their behavior would result in getting fired. There is so much cult of personality and self promotion in OSS.