> Society generally disagrees that unclear or unresponsive communication is welcomed. If someone speaks to me, I believe giving and them expecting a respectful response is not entitlement on their part.
That only works because meatspace limits the number of people who can impinge on your time.
That's not true for Github. Any maintainer is heavily outnumbered by the number of people who can file issues against their project.
I blame the fact that we centralized bug reporting. Back when everybody had to create an account on a different Bugzilla, there was enough friction that you had to want to file that bug report very badly--especially if there was a 24 hour waiting period to sign up. That kept the ratio under control so the maintainers weren't too outnumbered.
(Side note: I suspect there is also some level of "Filing bug reports on Github is a corporate metric" somewhere also creating extra static.)
That only works because meatspace limits the number of people who can impinge on your time.
That's not true for Github. Any maintainer is heavily outnumbered by the number of people who can file issues against their project.
I blame the fact that we centralized bug reporting. Back when everybody had to create an account on a different Bugzilla, there was enough friction that you had to want to file that bug report very badly--especially if there was a 24 hour waiting period to sign up. That kept the ratio under control so the maintainers weren't too outnumbered.
(Side note: I suspect there is also some level of "Filing bug reports on Github is a corporate metric" somewhere also creating extra static.)