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The assumption is that the group behind this attack had sock puppets that were rude to Lasse Collin, to wear him down, and then Jia Tan swept in as the savior.

Jia Tan wasn't rude, but the original maintainer Laser Collin probably wouldn't have been as burned out and willing to give responsibility to them if the community wasn't as rude and demanding of someone doing free work for them.

I think we need to start paying more of these open source maintainers and have some staff/volunteers that can help them manage their git hub issue volume.

The article covers that those rude accounts may have been sybils of the attacker to create pressure. It's effectively good cop/bad cop for open source.

There was definitely good cop/bad cop going on. That’s a really powerful psychological tool.

Pressuring the maintainer is already rude in itself and being polite about it won't help them

If they want things done quickly they can do it themselves

> If they want things done quickly they can do it themselves

I mean they kind of did. And that was the problem.