Comment by hmokiguess

Banned I understand but ridiculed? I would say that these bad drive by spammers are analogous to phishing emails. Do you engage with those? Are they worth any energy or effort from you? I think ghostty should just ghost them :)

EDIT: I'm getting downvoted with no feedback, which is fine I guess, so I am just going to share some more colour on my opinion in case I am being misunderstood

What I meant with analogous to phishing is that the intent for the work is likely the one of personal reward and perhaps less of the desire to contribute. I was thinking they want their name on the contributors list, they want the credit, they want something and they don't want to put effort on it.

Do they deserve to be ridiculed for doing that? Maybe. However, I like to think humans deserve kindness sometimes. It's normal to want something, and I agree that it is not okay to be selfish and lazy about it (ignoring contribution rules and whatnot), so at minimum I think respect applies.

Some people are ignorant, naive, and are still maturing and growing. Bullying them may not help (thought it could) and mockery is a form of aggression.

I think some true false positives will fall into that category and pay the price for those who are truly ill intended.

Lastly, to ridicule is to care. To hate or attack requires caring about it. It requires effort, energy, and time from the maintainers. I think this just adds more waste and is more wasteful.

Maybe those wordings are there just to 'scare' people away and maintainers won't bother engaging, though I find it is just compounding the amount of garbage at this point and nobody benefits from it.

Anyways, would appreciate some feedback from those of you that seem to think otherwise.

Thanks!

PS: What I meant with ghostty should "ghost" them was this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_banning