From my experience, this behavior is common when volunteers answer questions. Personally, I think this behavior that the author is seeing is because volunteer work is thankless and tiring (even with karma) and when you've seen a hundred questions and answered 20 of them the same way, it's easy to fall into the trap of feeling lazy or angry, and get aggressive either way.
This is the behavior I quickly learned to expect and brace myself against whenever I asked a question on IRC in the 2000's. I'd be mocked, the reasons behind my questions would be probed, and eventually I'd get an answer. I realized that If I asked an extremely specific question and, if someone probed, immediately provided full background, the mocking and probing would end, and I'd either get a shrug, or an answer.
This is not intended to excuse the behavior. I have just stopped being surprised when I see it.
When I used this library, I was impressed with how their design not only kept their own code clean, but made it incredibly intuitive and fun to write clean code on top of their API. Coworkers also looked at that code years later and went out of their way to give positive reviews of Lua.
#4 has introduced an interesting problem in the MMO space. By allowing scripting in WoW, players were penalized either because they couldn't keep up, or the general community would demand they run parsers to tell that they couldn't keep up. The vanilla experience was no longer good enough. FFXIV decided to ban any client customization in an attempt to avoid these kinds of toxic situations:
This is the behavior I quickly learned to expect and brace myself against whenever I asked a question on IRC in the 2000's. I'd be mocked, the reasons behind my questions would be probed, and eventually I'd get an answer. I realized that If I asked an extremely specific question and, if someone probed, immediately provided full background, the mocking and probing would end, and I'd either get a shrug, or an answer.
This is not intended to excuse the behavior. I have just stopped being surprised when I see it.