Cry about it.
There's nothing in that repo that even pretends to be flawless, impartial or anything else. The sheer amount of mental denial of service that having to deal with SEO slopshitters opening issues saying that they promise their substack is totally written by hand makes this an impossible task.
Ban first, ask questions later. If you find that some rules are unfair, edit them yourself, for your personal usage.
I find it a bit ironic that this site regularly talks about banning whole countries and IP ranges on our servers, then acts shocked when users do the same. The fact that somebody went to the effort to create and share this shows how poorly the public sees the web.
The reality we face is "Check your AdBlocker" is the new "Check your spam folder" and we should adjust accordingly.
I don't have an answer because as you say with power comes people wrangling over power. And claw sloperators can be way more persistent!
Easylist and its sublist are notorious for being poorly maintained and ignoring issues opened against it. Adguard is much more active in maintaining its lists. Especially Adguard its language blocklists have much, much less breakage and missed ads than Easylist.
Nice of you to slip this "easy" step into your advice. Give me a break!
> A personal list for uBlock Origin
These days anticheat software is likely to snap at anything. Who knows what they think of the development tools Hacker News users are likely to have on their computers? They really hate virtual machines for example. There's no telling how they'd react to a debugger or profiler.
But if it’s the author’s blocklist that is wrong, unverified, and causing harm to others? Cry about it.