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The actual PR looks so poor that I can't imagine it was submitted in good faith.

The person who submitted it

Is, according to their github page, a nary 18 years old.

One cannot say in good faith that they were a beacon of perfect judgement at 18. Anyone who says so is either looking to buy or sell a bridge in New York.

The delta between good and bad faith/intentions on the internet may be much larger than the delta between me at 18 and me at 44. There's also very bright 18 year olds contributing usefully to GitHub repositories. So, for me personally, the recurring assertion that they are "only" 18yo doesn't do much for me.

Being bright doesn't make you infallible. I was contributing to lots of things at 18, including digging into kernel debugging in ubuntu. That did not stop me from making occasionally poor choices with consequences much larger than I realized.

Being 18 means being given the benefit of the doubt that your actions are at least an attempt at good faith.

> Is, according to their github page, a nary 18 years old.

Stop posting this like an average 18 year old is supposed to be an idiot like OP. This is the age people get drafted, can start drinking alcohol, marry and start being adults.

Nit: in the US you can't drink alcohol at 18. I know in other countries that's not the case. Also another nit: the user's birth date does not check out to be 18, so his age is not entirely clear.

I say it like the average 18 year old is not expected to be fully aware of the depth of the consequences of their actions in every situation.

To this day, people @everyone in 10,000 person discord servers because they forget the scale of what that means.

Prefrontal cortex isn't developed until 25

> Is, according to their github page, a nary 18 years old.

a bit further down he actually proclaims being born 11/11/2004, making him just 17. No idea why he has 18 y/o in his user description, not that it'd make a difference tho.

The only way to judge that is to look at the user's contributions. Which I wouldn't do because that could be the point afterall

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