[Timwi]

It's unfortunate that some loud and rude people have put you off of contributing to free software. On behalf of the open-source community, I am sorry.

If it's any consolation, the prevailing attitude in open source is that nobody is entitled to any work from others. We are not very good at calling people out on this bad attitude, so an occasional vocal exemplar can give the whole movement an unwelcoming outside impression. We should work on that.

[LoganDark]

> It's unfortunate that some loud and rude people have put you off of contributing to free software.

I've been told this directly by project maintainers when filing bug reports (usually along the lines of "PRs welcome"), so it's not just that seeing this stuff on the internet puts me off from contributing in general. It's that people tend to respond directly with it whenever I come near their project.

I do still contribute to free software from time to time.

[scottlamb]

I say "PRs welcome" sometime. It's not a demand that you submit a PR; it's an invitation and an acknowledgement that I'm unable to put the time into fixing all reported issues promptly on my own. I try to make this clear but may not do so reliably.