[avgcorrection]

Imagine if I could demand that only people who have upvoted my comment could reply to it? I would get much less disagreeable replies.

[rafaelrc]

Thats a false equivalence. Asking a repo maintainer to fix an issue or implement a new feature is requesting their voluntary work. This has nothing to do with silencing disagreement.

[avgcorrection]

Huh? That was just a non-funny aside.