I think there’s an assumption of good faith from contributors, and a gift economy mentality that if someone has done something “for you” that you should respect that and give it time.
It feels like the rsync maintainer thought it was done for years, and then started getting bombarded with LLM generated bad faith/clout-chasing bug reports and PR’s, which he felt obligated to address.
You noted lower down that you feel no compunction about ignoring slop requests, but I think that’s a place that most people have to get themselves into if they have spent decades trying to be encouraging and supportive to bring people in.
It’s analogous to how MLM scammers always gravitate towards faith communities, the things that make those communities hang together are also the things that people can use to exploit them.
FOSS’s culture just happened to be perfect to be exploited by soulblank slopsters with a blank check.
I think there’s an assumption of good faith from contributors, and a gift economy mentality that if someone has done something “for you” that you should respect that and give it time.
It feels like the rsync maintainer thought it was done for years, and then started getting bombarded with LLM generated bad faith/clout-chasing bug reports and PR’s, which he felt obligated to address.
You noted lower down that you feel no compunction about ignoring slop requests, but I think that’s a place that most people have to get themselves into if they have spent decades trying to be encouraging and supportive to bring people in.
It’s analogous to how MLM scammers always gravitate towards faith communities, the things that make those communities hang together are also the things that people can use to exploit them.
FOSS’s culture just happened to be perfect to be exploited by soulblank slopsters with a blank check.