What about if they did take a quick look around, and determined that trying to fix it themselves or even find the guilty line would take too long? If I spend h

What about if they did take a quick look around, and determined that trying to fix it themselves or even find the guilty line would take too long? If I spend hours, days, or even weeks like that every time I found a bug in someone else's code, I'd be doing my own users a severe disservice. I owe it to them to spend my time more productively than that. So if the author's answer is "patch or GTFO" then I've found someone I'd never hire and probably wouldn't even want to interact with. Real open source is about the community as much as the code. It's not about authors and users each trying to set themselves above the other. True collaboration involves mapping tasks to expertise in the way that results in the greatest overall good. If an expert in an area unilaterally shuts off that conversation, then they're not really helping open source. They're just throwing stuff over the wall and pretending it's open.