Comment by alexellisuk
5 years ago
I like the DigitalOcean team and know some of them personally. The thing is that the author is spot on with his comments.
In the OpenFaaS community we've suffered every year from spam and low quality PRs that completely ignore the contribution guidelines. The worst part is that we cannot opt out.
I would love to see the team listening to maintainers and coming up with new ideas.
Apparently they do take opt-out requests by mail now: https://twitter.com/MattIPv4/status/1311390498888781824 (be nice, seems like that guy is the sole person asked to handle all this alone)
Which won't stop the spam unless the people spamming know ahead of time they won't get credit. Not sure if that's the case or if there's a mechanism for that.
True, assuming the spammers read a notice is way to optimistic.