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godelski • today at 12:15 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

  > trying to optimize the number of potential random PRs.
You're misrepresenting my comment. I didn't say at need to optimize, just consider. Don't strawman me here

You can't just hand wave them away as if this isn't an important factor. If you don't care about them at all I got a much much simpler solution: don't allow issues or PRs. Problem solved! But that's not a real solution either

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rglullis • today at 1:21 AM

> You can't just hand wave them away as if this isn't an important factor..

There are plenty of ways to indicate in the project that the Pfand is meant as one way to filter out bad actors, but it doesn't mean that it should be the only way to accept external contributions. You can find somewhere else on the thread where I listed some alternatives that can be used as well.

> If you don't care about them at all I got a much much simpler solution: don't allow issues or PRs.

Yes, and what is the problem with this solution? That's what many projects are doing and many more will do. They will close access to non-members and only accept someone new when they have some type of social proof. [0] And that is totally fine.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43423063

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