This is something I don't understand about the author's stance. Why are they seemingly insulted by the prompt? The insult doesn't come from the asker's lack of

This is something I don't understand about the author's stance. Why are they seemingly insulted by the prompt? The insult doesn't come from the asker's lack of helpfulness or unwillingness to fork or merge request, that's all irrelevant in their eyes. Just from the questions in of themselves, be them loaded or not. But there IS an implicit contract at the moment of creation of a repository which states "you may contact me here" and... that's what those people did? The only way to address a maintainer with the question beyond email, which isn't generally available anymore in the current environment, is the repo issues. Issues and merge requests are opt-out features, not opt-in, so, unmaintained repositories will in fact appear completely indistinguishable from maintained one. But repo creation is opt-in. Repo public status is opt-in. You can retract both of those contracts. If the question annoys someone so deeply - you can stop reading other repo's public issues, and you got a toggle to mute your own. I also am annoyed with people and things. I wish mosquitos disappeared, but I'm not going to make a ideological statement on it with so many more actionable approaches avaiable. Heck, even if the whole purpose of the article is to vent, you still got a way to direct that emotion "productively" - just give a cute little angry emoji to the issue's author.