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Re:We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –au... by skrebbel on Monday May 18, 2026 @03:47PM (#48184606)
This is never going to work. Sufficiently many of these people are going to find maintainers' home addresses and send them death threats and the likes. If you see how badly some people flip out just because their PR is rejected, it's going to be much much worse if their PR is rejected and their money is taken.
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Re:We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –au... by rglullis on Monday May 18, 2026 @04:52PM (#48185463)
Ok. If I'm the maintainer receiving death threats over that, I'd tell them they would get the $10 dollars back, plus some extra money for their troubles.

Location of the envelope with the money: the same police station where I'd reported the death threats.

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