Do you believe the comments in this GitHub issue are acceptable social discourse...

dragontamer · 2026-05-31T15:23:52.000000Z

The first comment, which is a screenshot from Mastodon, is perfectly acceptable. There is a clear regression between newer versions of rsync.

Then egos got bruised and things leave the realm of reason soon after. But coming with a request saying "Version X worked while version Y doesn't", with maybe some degree of annoyance, is fine.

akerl_ · 2026-05-31T15:39:00.000000Z

The title of the original issue, by the original issue submitter, is “Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software”.

dragontamer · 2026-05-31T15:42:48.000000Z

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akerl_ · 2026-05-31T15:52:58.000000Z

The target of the issue title is pretty clearly the maintainer. They’re the one being told to stop using AI.

I guess this answers the question of whether you think maybe it’s ok to spit in the face of open source developers.

jodrellblank · 2026-05-31T16:37:10.000000Z

“Maybe don’t do that?” does not mean “I support you doing that” no matter how unfamiliar you are with it as an idiom.

“I cut my finger with the kitchen knife”

“Maybe don’t hold it by the blade”

It’s something along the lines of sarcastic and deliberately unhelpful because “duh, of course don’t do that”.

akerl_ · 2026-05-31T16:50:03.000000Z

This doesn’t seem related to my comment. Did you mean to reply to me upthread?

Saying ~“maybe it’s not ok to do <thing> but <reasons they might do thing>” is nothing like your example and does imply it’s acceptable to the speaker to sometimes do that thing.

But we’re past that now because the person I was discussing this with has gone ahead and clarified that telling an open source maintainer to please stop fucking up isn’t an angry comment.