> There’s no cost to me to stop an entitled disruptive user with zero positive contributions from destabilising the project.
replyHaving to spend time reviewing a PR or issue is “no cost”?
I’m not convinced yet.
> As for tokens
I did not mean LLM contributions…I meant using AI tools to automate the reviews of contributions and users you seem to think cost no time or attention, but I do..
Why would you have to “review a pr or issue”?
replyYou can choose to
Or you can choose to ignore them
All of them?
replyWhy are you on a platform open to accepting them in the first place?
Are we talking about the same thing?
Yes, all of them if you want to. It's 100% up to you whether and how you deal with other people and their contributions, and it's completely orthogonal to being FLOSS or using a git hosting.
replyThe central freedom provided by opensource software maintainers is the fork button. Not the “merge pull request” button.
replyGit hosting provides discoverability and the ability to fork repositories. Everything else is an optional feature.
Then the thread feels a little tangential,
replybecause you don’t have to “drive a hard line”, to do that,
you just draw it once (publish a no PR policy, don’t host on GH, etc),
and you shouldn’t be hearing from users.
That's just one way to do it. Even if you let them send you PRs or whatever, you can still act on them or not depending on how they behave, your available resources, health, mood or just whim. You don't owe anyone anything and "creating a community around a project" is not a goal you have to be striving for regardless of whether you take contributions or provide some user support or not.
reply> depending on how they behave
replySo, reviewing them.
Which takes time/focus.
So don't do it when you don't want to.
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