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I consider myself a left leaning soyboy, but this could be the outcome of too "nice" of a discourse. I won't advocate for toxicity, but I am considering if we bolster the self-image of idiots when we refuse to call them idiots. Because you're right, this is fundamentally a people problem, specifically we need people to filter this themselves.

I don't know where the limit would go.

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Shame is a useful social tool. It can be overused or underused, but it's still a tool and people like this should be made to publicly answer for their obnoxious and destructive behavior.

How?

I'm now imagining old-Linus responding to an AI slop bug report on lkml...

Shame is demotivating for me. I would rather frame it as behaving out the best-interest and collective excellence within our trade. Imagine if plumbers or electricians were this cavalier? Houses would burn down. People in hospitals would die because the back-up power generators gas lines would fail. The security of curl is pretty high stakes. If the obnoxious behavior is simply just for kicks, we're putting a LOT on the line.

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