What is this I don't even...

[ClausL]

The commenters were being really obnoxious and rude, and attacking the author for personal reasons. she gave the GAME criticism, and they insulted her on a personal level.

a lot of those comments got deleted, but it definitely did reflect badly on the fanbase since those people were directed there from here.

someone wrote mean things about our favorite game, let's go "raid" the comments section! that's not immature to you?

[Abriael]

The commenters were being really obnoxious and mean, and attacking the author for personal reasons. she gave the GAME criticism, and they insulted her on a personal level.

I see no insults there. Maybe you should double check your definition of "insult", because telling someone he did a bad job isn't insulting.

And even if SOMEONE did insult (which is all to be demonstrated), branding the whole community out of it is just a petty excuse to dismiss the valid criticism.

Ultimately a good journalist should be able to take "mean and obnoxious" comments in stride (and mind you, there are very, very few comments that could be defined even near to "mean and obnoxious, you're massively overdramatizing and exaggerating). That comes with writing anything under the public spotlight, and one should be able to look inwardly and think on what in his writing caused that kind of overwhelming negative reaction, instead of conveniently thinking that something's wrong with the readers.

she gave the GAME criticism,

There's a difference between "criticism" and outright mockery and open (and unjustified) accusations of plagiarism, that are directed towards people, not the game.

When you accuse someone to "copy a design" you say that to people. Games don't copy. They don't make themselves.