Comment by hobofan
5 years ago
I think them not putting any meaningful measures in place since the last years is already a response.
One such measure could've been to make it opt-in, but as mentioned on Twitter that was proposed internally and rejected. That to me already clearly signals that they were aware of the problems they were causing for maintainers (maybe not the extent), but chose to prioritize their bottom line, which to me is very much "blatant discrespect".
To be fair, judging by organizer's reaction [0] it seems that the problem of spam this year is much more widespread than last year.
[0] https://twitter.com/MattIPv4/status/1311421301291200512