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Re:We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –au... by Lyrkan on Monday May 18, 2026 @06:28PM (#48186671)
> so you need to give something else

Well no, they don't need to. As they said they could just do something else instead of contributing (and I know I would too).

Your proposal would just end up killing those open source projects even more than what you are trying to solve.

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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 @07:33PM (#48187341)
> Your proposal would just end up killing those open source projects

Name 3 open source projects that are dependent on a continuous stream of first-time contributors to keep going.

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