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This person is more than OK. They're learning how to set boundaries and not let crappy people bother them.

Open Source will eat your soul if you let it. Low effort drive by issues, questions, or comments are crushing. On my humble project, something like 40% of people who open issues completely ignore the issue template, which means every. single. conversation. begins with asking for the bare minimum of details needed to even help them. Then you've got PRs with literally zero info, which you're expected to spend time reviewing / understanding.

Some people will even violate the Github boundary and email you directly to ask why their issue isn't being responded to, or why their PR isn't getting merged, or whatever. Honestly? Fuck these people.

OP is spot on.



> They're learning how to set boundaries and not let crappy people bother them.

Abusive mindsets parse boundaries as an illness. So saying that someone "seems unwell" simply because they want reasonable boundaries is definitely telling on oneself.




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