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by brovonov 140 days ago
They are not contributors, they are spammers. There is a difference. Do you reply to spammers with friendly greetings?
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I should really. They are also people. Probably bored at "work" in some slum in Nigeria.

I'll try to strike a conversation with a spammer next time I can't sleep. Thanks for a great suggestion.

But you won't. Let's be real here. Yeah, lets gently remind ai spammers that they are truly helping but submitting bogus Issues, PRs, bug bounties, or whatever. Just like scammers from fake call centers, they are only in it for the money and hoping one hit sticks.