[trashburger]

It seems that every big project attracts that one persistent weirdo who comes by from time to time and posts silly stuff. I've noticed this pattern for a while now. I don't want to give names but I've at least seen some... bizarre issues on the LLVM tracker, for example.

[adenozine]

Oh man, yeah there has been some absolute dogshit ones on LLVM. The Docker one has also seen some pretty freaky weirdos.

It’s a bit sad, we’re all on the same OSS team in the end. I’ve never found it that difficult to keep it cut and dry on software repos, I don’t know why people don’t just save the venom for forums and social media like the good ol days.

[pwdisswordfish9]

Got some links? Would love to read.

[adenozine]

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/37930

Here’s lattner telling some guy off. There’s none that I can think of that are super memeworthy or anything. It’s usually just insecure devs with a little Dunning Kruger cocktail in the mix.

Certainly not anybody bothering dozens of people manually, for months, like in the link. That’s pretty wild.

[crypt0x]

While we are sharing eye rollers.. I had this person plonk into our issues once with a “revolutionary” encryption technique. I wish I could remember the concoction he described.. Now that I’m trying to find it, it seems they deleted the github account. Seems like he saw the light, or got banned. Either way SNR increased and I’m all for that.

[stkdump]

There was a guy, Kryptochef, roaming german tech forums. Hard to tell if this was an extremely committed comedic troll or an insane guy. This was his website: https://web.archive.org/web/20140504165057/http://kryptochef...

It went down in 2014 and the guy vanished never to be heard of again.

[Blackthorn]

Two longstanding projects, two different weirdos I've had to deal with. At this point I've gotten unfortunately good at spotting a certain type of crazy.

[loeg]

Yeah. Same story on every open source bugzilla I've been on.

[pifm_guy]

Luckily, most projects seem to have a few supporters who want to help the project but don't have the technical skills yet to do so. For these people, managing the forums and bug reports is a valuable way contribute.

They can keep the noise and disruption of the craziest spammers to a minimum.