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

Post by LeoNatan25 » Wed, Jan 28, 2026, 7:03 PM UTC

direwolf20 wrote: post #351

vivzkestrel wrote: post #146

- I notice a lot of stuff in github issues all the time - For example, there is this +1 comment pasted like 500 times that I have seen a lot over issues - Cant we have a github regex bot of sorts ^(\W+)?\+(\W+)?1(\W+)?$ that removes all such comments? or let the author of the repo control what kind of regex based stuff to remove? - I know regex kind of sounds old fashioned in the age of LLMs but it is kinda simple to…

Yes you can, and those comments will then say "plus one", which you will add to your regex, and then they will say "++", which you will add to your regex, and then they will say "I agree", which you will add to your regex, and then they will say "me too", ......

Post by nout » Wed, Feb 04, 2026, 6:20 PM UTC

twodave wrote: post #570

anonzzzies wrote: post #514

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is fine if it is not lying but so often you ask how are you and get the flowers and butterflies response but when you sit 10 min more they start explaining how miserable they are: as a Dutchman, I do tend to ask why they said how great and excellent they were just minutes ago. And no, it is not just something you do out of politeness: if you just canned response to one thing, how do I know you don't have canned re…

It isn’t lying, it is what we consider an appropriate level of sharing. We don’t tend to want to put our burdens on people who may not be interested in hearing it.