Exactly, the anonymous internet reacted in a way unfortunately unsurprising of them, but instead of focusing on the fact that trolls-will-troll, people continued blaming the dev community for adding insult to injury. I'm still getting replies to my response to mr-hank from accounts that were made specifically to comment on the matter. Alex is out of place in speaking down to the community this way; Reddit is a very large reason this place and her Twitter account got hailstormed with assholes on this topic (and misinformation about it) in the first place. He needs to look closer to home before he starts telling other people how to handle the blatant sexism and harassment in their communities.
I've said this before, but people on "mansphere" blogs flipped out over this whole thing, a lot harder than HN did.
Seems harsh to blame the professional software industry for everything done by internet trolls.
Would be like me seeing troll commments posted on a car forum and saying "damn, mechanics are such assholes".