It's actually a valuable signal to the phone scammer if you're mean, because that means they can stop wasting their own effort of scamming you, and call somebody else.

No when people attend courses, paying money for the privilege no less, and get told "Now open a pull request" they don't care about your project - they care about getting their instructor to say they've done a good job.

I think some folks genuinely don’t realize how selfish and destructive they’re being or at least believe they help more than they hinder. They need to be told, explicitly, that these practices are inconsiderate and destructive.

Cheap, nearly free voice phone calls killed old fashioned phone service. Once the incoming spam exceeded 95% I shut off the ringer and no longer use voice phone calls.

Once the cost of generating push media drops low enough (close enough to zero) the media is dead.

Pull requests are (ironically) a push media, and infinite zero effort PRs can be generated, therefore PRs are dead.

The proper way to handle the situation is to no longer accept PRs.

In github, enter a repo, "settings" "General" scroll down to Features, then uncheck "Pull requests". Or at least set to collaborators only. Probably need to shut off issues.

It gitlab, (I'm not as certain about this) enter a repo, "Settings", Visibility, "Merge Requests" change to "Only project members"

Its a post AI world, those features cannot be enabled on the internet anymore. Anything that accepts push from the public will get spammed into inability to use it. As a social activity PRs are dead. They were nice, but they are dangerous to leave enabled on the internet now. Oh well thats the cost of AI.

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