We've entered the hypothetical realm here..clearly some people have had different experiences when it comes to interacting with "Lispers". Maybe they asked the wrong question or they acted like jerks, who knows.

And most adult programming communities have something worse than the "Rock Star" stereotype: the "Authority". For Lisp in particular, there are plenty who struggle for that title.

PS. Indeed, "I pushed 20 of my projects to Github"...who cares, is anyone of them any good?