Comment by kazinator

> toxicity and a community full of people who are not welcoming to newcomers

What the article actually says:

"a wall of text of replies asking the user to fix their style before they can consider helping"

because they wrote their code like this or what have you:

  (defun foo (arg)
  (setq var (+ arg 1))
  (let ((z (bar var)))
  ...
  )
  )

a common problem is some misplaced parenthesis which you can see easily if you use an editor which auto-indents the code. Encouraging newcomers to format code and learn how to have it done is good advice; it's the first survival skill.