It turns out, if people in an online community really don't like what you're doing, they can turn to harassment, threats, or worse to try to shut you down.
I read that. I‘m not entirely sure what that means though. They host an instance with many users for a long time? Even if thats the case they might be very bad at social skills and got set off by misinterpreting his intenstions (not trying to defend, trying to understand so I can form an opinion and search for a solution)