Talk about overreacting. The user wasn’t asking for support or effort be sent their way, they just want to know if the project is active.

If you don’t want to interact with people keep the source to yourself.

Or maybe ask yourself why it isn’t immediately obvious that your project is active. I see a project with a low semantic version number and a release three months ago.

Nowhere in the readme is there any blunt statement on the current status of the project or what kind of state it’s in.

Some direct and affirmative language like that can go a long way there. Put info in the readme somewhere prominent and it would probably stop a lot of people from asking questions.

Tell us how when to raise issues or not. You can even tell people not to ask whether the project is active and they might just comply!