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  • Maybe we should cut out the middle-man and make it easy for people to donate token credits to open-source projects, and let the maintainers decide how to use them.
    by Retr0id
  • AI agents who review the slop created by other AI agents is not the answer here.

    I much prefer a blanket ban on PRs and issues created by AI agents (which is what I personally do for my repos; so far I have closed one[1]). In fact I would love a github alternative which considers AI contributions to be a breach of their terms of use and ban any people who let AI agents loose on their platform.

    1: https://github.com/runarberg/markdown-it-math/pull/48#issuec...

    by runarberg
  • I understand this is a general problem in OSS, but I also hope the irony isn’t lost that this article is specifically complaining about AI slop PRs to the Open Claw repo.

    If the maintainers are that tired of it, they should update OpenClaw to prevent it from submitting PRs to their repo.

    by janalsncm
  • In my main project we added a new requirement that all new contributors meet a maintainer in a non-textual format before their first PR is merged. Seems to work well for a small project.
    by j2kun
  • If anyone is interested in what it was like fighting spam in the early 2000s, I worked for a company that captured spam, analyzed it and then passed the analysis s on to the law firms of the big email providers for targeting under CAN-SPAM.

    Twitter thread about it below but happy to do a AMA here.

    https://x.com/alexpotato/status/1208948480867127296?s=20

    by alexpotato
  • GitHub just recently added configurable PR limits for maintainers to help partially address this problem: https://github.blog/open-source/maintainers/how-pull-request...
    by guidoiaquinti
  • I see one big difference: with email it was always about sender reputation based on email servers (IPs), maybe about domains. But never about individual users. It's the organizations running the email server, who make sure users behave. So they don't get blacklisted and lose sending privileges for hundreds or thousands of users.

    For PRs/issues this is not applicable.

    by andix
  • I value Open Source very highly, and enjoy contributing. Fix a bug here, add a small feature there, most OSS projects have low hanging opportunities. And these days, to "switch off" from my at-work code, try to do more OSS contribution as well.

    What I see instead, really, is that most projects no longer, or very rarely look at any contribution, and e.g. any issue + PR/MR combo I make, has a much higher chance of never being looked at and some bot just closes it. Even though the rest of the project might be actually quite active.

    It takes some getting used to, apparently being filed together with the "noise", when I try to go out of my way to be as much "signal" as possible. But well, if I really wanted to, I can just run my own changes locally, that's the beauty of OSS, but I hope we can get to some more balanced place over time (being forever the optimist).

    by imrehg

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