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I don't like how the person who responded was very friendly and actually looked at the issue. It seemed like he was being taken advantage of. More importantly,
by armchairhacker 3y ago
I don't like how the person who responded was very friendly and actually looked at the issue. It seemed like he was being taken advantage of.
More importantly, I don't want these kinds of reports to discourage friendly, investigative responses. Open source already has a problem, where many newcomers get discouraged by curt responses and their issues not really getting investigated or addressed. Sometimes the responders come off as rude, because they see so many low-effort PRs and issues and feature requests, and have very limited time. But a lot of "low-effort, low-quality" stuff is just submitted by people who are trying to join OSdev, so they deserve friendly responses and actual investigation like this responder did.
This stuff just makes maintainers' lives harder and increases the chance that newcomers get unreasonably-harsh responses, discouraging them from making future contributions (which may eventually become useful).
Ironically this is even a problem in HackerOne: I've read multiple blog posts where someone submit a CVE to a big company, and the company responded "this isn't a real problem" and just left it unaddressed (sometimes leading to the public disclosure in the blog post).
- pavel_lishin 3y ago> I don't like how the person who responded was very friendly and actually looked at the issue. It seemed like he was being taken advantage of. Well, if he was an asshole to everyone and assumed ill intent each time, then he'd get no bug bounties at all. Nor friends.