Writing a story 1.5 years after the fact to complain about not being credited for a 20 line patch that was subpar doesn't sound very compromisy nor displomaticy

Writing a story 1.5 years after the fact to complain about not being credited for a 20 line patch that was subpar doesn't sound very compromisy nor displomaticy to me. I feel sad for the maintainer in question who suddenly is on the receiving end of a borderline defamatory blog post featured in the front page of HN for some minor "mistake" he made 1.5 years ago. Apparently according to some comments in this discussion what he did was pretty much standard procedure even. Where is "being kind" for him? Where is the "encourage them to keep doing what they are doing" for him? Not the misattribution of course, but like, to not feel discouraged after 20 thankless years of contributing to the kernel and 10 years of maintaining a kernel subsystem? Speculative statements like this are anything but kind: "Linux maintainer thinks this person is worthless as a human". Take your own medicine. Actually be empathic, not only to those wearing the protagonist hat, but to every single person, and perhaps especially those unfairly villainized.