> We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap

If shame worked, then slop reports would've stopped being made already. Public ridicule only creates a toxic environment where good faith actors are caught up in unnecessary drama because a maintainer felt their time was being wasted. Ban them, close your bug bounty program, whatever, but don't start attacking people when you feel slighted because that never ends well for anyone (including curl maintainers)

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f311a 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It worked well for me when people were stealing my articles, pretending they wrote them. One tweet or mention in Linkedin and the article is gone.

	▲	hypeatei 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Plagiarism is much different than collaborating on open source projects but I'm glad that calling them out worked.

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pharrington 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Test your hypothesis by attaching your offline name to your internet profiles.

	▲	hypeatei 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That's sort of the whole point of this thought exercise, no? If shame worked in an environment with anonymous/pseudonymous users, then we wouldn't be here. The only people you stand to harm are the ones who attach their real identities to their profile (and they're more likely to be good faith IMO) Besides, I've seen plenty of profiles here on HN who advertise their real name and espouse (in my view) awful takes that would most likely not fly in real life. I'd recommend reading this article[0] for an example of when people, with their real names exposed, can still cause a shitstorm of misunderstanding. 0: https://lwn.net/Articles/973782/

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maipen 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This is 100% true. I've seen this happen over and over again.

Shaming does not work, you look like an idiot, people will start to despise you and then you end up ostracizing yourself from the rest of the community and the only ones left within your bubble, are circle jerk assholes.

It's one of those cases where you end up causing more harm than the ones you were complaining about.

Just pathetic behaviour.