I agree that it's unfair for the VSCode team to have to deal with trolling for trolling's sake. But I imagine many of the fake issues are a form of protest, and a protest is designed to be inconvenient for the sake of raising awareness and making your point heard.

It's like a strike. Is a coal miner's strike "fair" to consumers who are dealt power outages or price hikes? No, but the whole point is to generate inconvenience.

I sympathize with the VSCode team the same way I sympathize with front-line customer support at an airline with striking baggage handlers. But that doesn't make the strike less meritable.

In this way I think the fake reports are like any other market action used to demonstrate dismay with a certain behavior, like strikes, protests or boycotts.

They delt with the Santa hat issue. Some of those issues have just enough merit.

Great example of letting some bullshit slide, other people are going to to want their share.

They set the precedent by dealing with one already. The saying “don’t feed the trolls” exists for a reason.

They had time to deal with the santa hat issue so clearly they have a lot of free time on their hands.

haha, the pinned issue is "why can't i file an issue right now"