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I have to say, the youtube-dl issues tab is one of the most toxic and filled with entitled people I've ever seen. I visited it a couple months ago and it is app

• detaro 6y ago
  Right, that's one of the projects that seems to be a nightmare to maintain and you'd want paid moderators for because its just so much...
  • nix23 6y ago
    Well no, just go away from github, it's the twitter of Git-Hosting-Plattform's. An example why you don't want to work on a (a-)social git network: https://nikolas.github.io/github-drama/ https://nikolas.github.io/github-drama/
    • detaro 6y ago
      As if other code collaboration methods don't have drama. Making it obscure to access can help somewhat, but also gets in the way of contributors.
      • nix23 6y ago
        True, but still don't sit in the middle of the troll-hole, maybe the troll will find you in the Forrest but the chance is much smaller, and the best thing is always, make them create a new email for every troll attempt too your mail-list, and even more important ban them fast and forever. It's your health and your joy in that project otherwise both get destroyed over time, they don't pay you and with that have Zero rights to say something against your project, ban them! If they want to change something let them fork. EDIT: If a contributor wants to help he will take that extra step or just send you the patch over mail-list, don't work with twitter-style fast-com tools, work with well thought out slow-com tools like mail.
• tmaly 6y ago
  Maybe the maintainers can start charging for feature requests. This might deter the rudeness.