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Re: We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports

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> We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap

If shame worked, then slop reports would've stopped being made already. Public ridicule only creates a toxic environment where good faith actors are caught up in unnecessary drama because a maintainer felt their time was being wasted. Ban them, close your bug bounty program, whatever, but don't start attacking people when you feel slighted because that never ends well for anyone (including curl maintainers)

Re: We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports

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I've been helping a bit with OWASP documentation lately and there's been a surge of Indian students eagerly opening nonsensical issues and PRs and all of the communication and code is clearly 100% LLMs. They'll even talk back and forth with each other. It's a huge headache for the maintainers. I suggested following what Ghostty does where everything starts as discussions - only maintainers create issues, and PRs can…

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Re: We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Indian students How do you know this?

Because their usernames are Indian and profiles have links to Indian universities, and sometimes descriptions of the 101 classes they're currently taking. That doesn't stop them from saying things like "I see this sort of vulnerability all the time"

Apologies - looks like you have clear evidence for the "student" part.

Re: We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports

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post #21

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To be clear, no, it is not, because of the opportunity cost of all the other slop. That's what this is all about.

Then no bug reports and no fixes. Sounds good enough.

They'll still get bug reports and fixes from people who actually give a shit and aren't just trying to get some quick money.

Re: We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports

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One way this can backfire: if you have no reputation and are nobody, and get banned and publically ridiculed, this is now a badge of honor you can take to wealthy and deluded people convinced of the AI future, to say 'look, I have been shot at! I'm a true believer!'

And then maybe they will give you money.

Re: We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports

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post #11

I've been helping a bit with OWASP documentation lately and there's been a surge of Indian students eagerly opening nonsensical issues and PRs and all of the communication and code is clearly 100% LLMs. They'll even talk back and forth with each other. It's a huge headache for the maintainers. I suggested following what Ghostty does where everything starts as discussions - only maintainers create issues, and PRs can…

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Taught by whom? Without evidence, this just comes of as a racist trope. FWIW, the Indians I've worked with have all been very honest and dedicated to their work.

Re: We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports

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post #11

I've been helping a bit with OWASP documentation lately and there's been a surge of Indian students eagerly opening nonsensical issues and PRs and all of the communication and code is clearly 100% LLMs. They'll even talk back and forth with each other. It's a huge headache for the maintainers. I suggested following what Ghostty does where everything starts as discussions - only maintainers create issues, and PRs can…

>Indian students How do you know this?

Sir, I agree with moralestapia. Not a singular one of the 20 lakh lines in the PR were written by ChaiGPT.

Re: We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports

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post #11

I've been helping a bit with OWASP documentation lately and there's been a surge of Indian students eagerly opening nonsensical issues and PRs and all of the communication and code is clearly 100% LLMs. They'll even talk back and forth with each other. It's a huge headache for the maintainers. I suggested following what Ghostty does where everything starts as discussions - only maintainers create issues, and PRs can…

>Indian students Resume glorification and LinkedIn / GitHub profile attention do that. I am seeing a lot of people coming up with perceived knowledge that's just LLM echo chambers. Code they contribute comes straight out of LLMs. This is generally fine as long as they know what it does. But when you ask them to make some changes, some are as lost as ever. Torvalds was right, code maintenance is going to be a headache…

>This is generally fine as long as they know what it does.

Thanks to their LLM reliance they'd soon not know what it does, and forget even the little they know about coding

Re: We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports

#59

> We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap If shame worked, then slop reports would've stopped being made already. Public ridicule only creates a toxic environment where good faith actors are caught up in unnecessary drama because a maintainer felt their time was being wasted. Ban them, close your bug bounty program, whatever, but don't start attacking people when you feel slighted bec…

This is 100% true. I've seen this happen over and over again.

Shaming does not work, you look like an idiot, people will start to despise you and then you end up ostracizing yourself from the rest of the community and the only ones left within your bubble, are circle jerk assholes.

It's one of those cases where you end up causing more harm than the ones you were complaining about.

Just pathetic behaviour.

Re: We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports

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post #11

I've been helping a bit with OWASP documentation lately and there's been a surge of Indian students eagerly opening nonsensical issues and PRs and all of the communication and code is clearly 100% LLMs. They'll even talk back and forth with each other. It's a huge headache for the maintainers. I suggested following what Ghostty does where everything starts as discussions - only maintainers create issues, and PRs can…

i f8cking hate being born here.

volume of low quality content, dsa/leetcode, etc. is so high, good people/content gets left out. networking, connections, nepotism so much high. getting job based on actual talent very rare.

MNCs which are good outside are so much sh8t here; well capitalism doesn't give a f8ck anyways.

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