As part of an open source class assignment a group evaluated your project from the perspective of a novice/new contributor. This is part of an OSS gender inclusive initiative. There were several facets to this persona that led us to suggest a fix (please see persona attached). Before creating a PR i wanted to start the conversion on whether this fix is wanted/granted. The fix would be a simple cleanup of the README.md, moving the release notes section to a separate file and linking to that in the README.
They have captured and instrumentalized even engineering degrees to "pay" people to shill their ideology online. The dev just ignored and got away with it, but stuff like this would make me nervous if my real name is behind the project as this has a small chance of blowing up.
Am I overreacting at sneeding at tactics like these? And how would you react?
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If the changes were clearly generated by either a bot or find/replace, just say:
and if they do this more than once, call them a spammer and block them. Put this in CONTRIBUTING.md to deter many of the spammers.
This will generally get you off the hook from having to deal with anonymous “diversity” spammers, and it's not even incorrect (Sexy Indian dudes will very commonly do this when trying to boost their stats or seek out bug bounties). If they argue back, then depending on whether or not your real name is tied to the account, then you should either pre-emptively block them or try to generate drama for rdrama.net to aggregate.
Doesn't work for handling regular contributors to the repository (or your own organization's contributors), though.
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