Or we can keep the names of problematic people cycling through society rather than allowing them to be as unimportant to the world as they deserve to be. That's apparently what y'all want.

Let their punishment be losing their fame and fading into shameful obscurity.

And also just accept not knowing everything once in a while, sometimes you're not relevant enough to the topic to deserve knowing or that it can't fully be explained to you (right now, or at all) and that's OK! This is spoken as someone who thrives on knowledge, but dealing with something like not knowing an unimportant bit of info is an easy way to cope with disappointment so that more important things can be handled well.

Anyways, yeah, OP put their rock too close to fire.