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2021-07-31 UTC
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vikanezrimaya <sknebel> "Necroposting" <- Oh. Necroposting. Sounds nostalgic. I hate when people bring their culture of closing threads to prevent necroposting to GitHub Issues. Doubly so if the issues are closed automatically with the stale-bot - it feels very hostile to bug reporters. Stale-bot can simply place a label on an issue signifying if it's stale and I like that workflow a lot more
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vikanezrimaya an issue is still a potential issue even if it's stale
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sknebel fully agreed, I strongly dislike that too
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vikanezrimaya it might've gotten accidentally fixed, but nobody can know for sure unless there's a test case for that issue, in which case it should be closed by a human who wrote the test case.
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vikanezrimaya Issues are not a forum and they shouldn't be
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vikanezrimaya there are Github Discussions for that
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aaronpk stalebot--
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Loqi stalebot has -1 karma over the last year
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vikanezrimaya yay stalebot slander
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Loqi woot
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vikanezrimaya one of the projects I'm part of uses stale-bot to simply place a label. The label gets removed if the issue sees any kind of activity, even a simple "still reproducible" from anyone looking at it - and I consider it the example of what a good stalebot workflow should be
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sknebel and even in forums it IMHO really depends - e.g. many discourse instances are IMHO way to quick to lock a thread
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sknebel a forum thread can have a post every 4 months and be useful
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sknebel (lack of long-running threads is one of the main problems I have with the Reddit/HN/... style of ranking)
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@dharmeshkakadia Testing @WebMention support https://dharmeshkakadia.github.io/spark-parser-internals/ (twitter.com/_/status/1421552702383742978)
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@jamesvandyne ↩️ My blog only allow comments via Webmentions. It's a a good barrier to entry. ( Though replies on twitter backfeed to my blog as webmentions) (twitter.com/_/status/1421585871455678466)
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