[Astarte]

That's a good question indeed. I don't have an answer but some people got similar results when pointing out some issues internally. Only when publishing those on the mail list where everyone can read it things started to gain some traction.

"In April 2018 a Tor core member — the most active Tor Project person on that closed mailing list — made an attempt to initiate a “do not do” relay requirements list to improve and streamline the handling of malicious Tor relay reports. (I’m not mentioning his name since he does not want to be publicly associated with bad-relays handling for safety reasons.) Unfortunately also this attempt failed since no Tor directory authority operator answered. (Tor directory authorities are required to enforce any Tor network wide rules unless it is part of the tor code itself.)

Starting with June 2019, after multiple reports about suspicious relays remained with no reaction I stopped sending them to the list. Occasionally I sent some suspicious relay groups to the public tor-talk mailing list instead — which ironically was more fruitful."

https://medium.com/@nusenu/the-growing-problem-of-malicious-...

Even more ironical, the very person which reported that issue and similar ones (also on twitter) got his twitter account closed shortly afterwards (see other post on that site). So he has much less audience than before. Coincidence? Tinfoil hattery? Maybe. But certainly fishy.