CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@glyph excavacon joke made with love.

@xgranade @glyph I can thankfully not take credit for that crime. That's all @astraluma

@AlSweigart I like the Software that Works in red better. But if you're trying to emphasize the "Software that looks like it works" the other is better.

@cwebber oh god that first one. Friend, come learn to code for real and meet some open source folks. People not caring about your niche applications is normal.

@mcc @glyph I feel like I might need to make a corollary to the Olivia Hill rule.

@xgranade oh, you know I agree there! It's just easier to convince boosters that spam is bad than llms are bad, and thus easier to wedge into "so if thing primarily produces spam, and spam bad, we should be heavily skeptical of thing."

@xgranade ... as someone who runs an open source project with dozens of first ever open source contributions, like... I agree with the principle of engaging with newbies and helping them become successful.

But like... I also close spam without comment.

And if most llm prs are, as the writer claims, spam, there's no actual thing to teach?

Don't spam is a fundamental norm of human centric internet culture.

I'm not wasting time on someone who hasn't learned "being a person in a public space," and I don't advocate anyone else does either.

Advice for community managers:

Use the Olivia Hill rule.

It's surprisingly easy to enforce:

Fascists get really upset and will talk to you about why the rule is bad.

You then ban them.

That's it, that's all the work it takes!