My experiences as a Recruiter on Hacker News 
<i>I don't want an apology on behalf of the very angry minority, not even close.</i><p>You may not want one, but you deserve one.<p>It's sad to see that even without the visibility of the mob amplifying itself in public, you still get a private lynching of sorts... Perhaps the same people who sent those emails can come out of the woodwork now and apologise. That'd be big of them.