[TillE]

> Ignoring leaves the loop open

Often that's what you want! Maybe I don't want to reject your bug report outright, maybe I'll get around to it in a few weeks or months or years. Or not, I dunno.

I've had my own issues and bugfix PRs on small projects ignored, that's fine. Nobody should ever have the expectation of a response on that kind of project.

[miku86]

The parents are talking about ignoring as a method to (implicitily) say no.

Ignoring: for the maintainer: open loop or maybe hidden closed loop (e.g. afraid of confrontation); for the requester: open loop.

The intention of saying no is a closed loop.

> Nobody should ever have the expectation...

Yes, but that's not a pragmatic solution. People sometimes DO have the expectation.