> Why would anyone even attempt to contribute if their efforts are likely to be dismissed in this way? I think most people who can make positive contributions

> Why would anyone even attempt to contribute if their efforts are likely to be dismissed in this way? I think most people who can make positive contributions are aware that they can do so. There are also a bunch of people who can't but think they can, which is fine, but they need to be understanding when their PR gets feedback or turned down outright. Contributing to someone else's project is both a gift and a burden for the maintainer, so contributors need to have humility about the net value of what they're contributing. If code isn't up to the maintainers' standards, the imposition on the maintainers may exceed the value to the project. If this isn't a risk a submitter can tolerate, it's unlikely that their contribution would be a net positive. Most communities have healthy expectations about participation in certain activities being contingent on a certain level of experience/skill so that participation does not impose an undue risk or cost on the community. Open source post-2010 has a very abnormal and unrealistic ideal of encouraging everyone to be involved at all points in the process at every skill and experience level. It's perfectly reasonable to have a feedback mechanism where you tell people to get good/lurk more/work on their backhand/etc. before engaging with the community at a certain level, so as to prevent the cost of managing their contribution from exceeding its value.