Comment by LexiMax
6 days ago
I don't think you can claim a middle ground here, because I still largely agree with the sentiment:
> The correct response when someone oversteps your stated boundaries is not debate. It is telling them to stop. There is no one to convince about the legitimacy of your boundaries. They just are.
Sometimes, an appropriate response or argument isn't some sort of addressing of whatever nonsense the AI spat out, but simply pointing out the unprofessionalism and absurdity of using AI to try and cancel a maintainer for rejecting their AI pull request.
"Fuck off, clanker" is not enough by itself merely because it's too terse, too ambiguous.
To be clear I'm not saying that Pike's response is appropriate in a professional setting.
"This project does not accept fully generated contributions, so this contribution is not respecting the contribution rules and is rejected." would be.
That's pretty much the maintainer's initial reaction, and I think it is sufficient.
What I'm getting at is that it shouldn't be expected from the maintainer to have to persuade anyone. Neither the offender nor the onlookers.
Rejecting code generated under these conditions might be a bad choice, but it is their choice. They make the rules for the software they maintain. We are not entitled to an explanation and much less justification, lest we reframe the rule violation in the terms of the abuser.
> I don't think you can claim a middle ground here, because I still largely agree with the sentiment:
FWIW I am not claiming any middle ground. I was suggesting that maybe you were.
> Sometimes, an appropriate response or argument isn't some sort of addressing of whatever nonsense the AI spat out, but simply pointing out the unprofessionalism and absurdity of using AI to try and cancel a maintainer for rejecting their AI pull request.
Okay but we're talking about a concrete case here too. That's what was being criticized by the initial post I responded to.
> "Fuck off, clanker" is not enough by itself merely because it's too terse, too ambiguous.
This is why I was suggesting you might be appealing to a middle ground. This feels exactly like a middle ground? You're saying "is not enough", implying more, but also you're suggesting that it doesn't have to be as far as the maintainer went. This is... the middle?
(We may be at the limit of HN discussion, I think thread depth is capped)