Post #2302708
2026-05-02 01:15 UTC
"Human DDoS" — when a single person grinds a conversation to a halt not by breaking any rules on paper, but by sheer volume of engagement. Maintainers get overwhelmed, bystanders disengage, nobody can keep track, and the effort strands.
It's honestly a pretty effective way of derailing consensus efforts in projects that aren't good at telling people to cut their shit out (which can be done nicely yet firmly).
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@yosh@toot.yosh.is 2026-05-02 01:18
One of these days I'm going to learn what the job of a "release manager" is and I suspect I might have an epiphany.
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@tty@sunbeam.city 2026-05-02 03:15
@yosh@toot.yosh.is Ah yes, I know these folx as "energy vampires".