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I was considering making a browser plugin to have a one-click button to comment "this issue is not going away by itself, please read it before you decide it's stale" or similar. Now that ddevault wrote this it might be a good resource to put in there.

Making a completely automated bot certainly falls short of GitHub's acceptable use policy.

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My first thought: Maybe include a link to the ddvault post in the template?

On second thought... maybe not. I could see it quickly becoming a battering ram that just annoys OSS devs. Ultimately, this isn't something users can't improve, it has to be the maintainer. Nagging OSS maintainers is how we wind up with incidents like left-pad. In the most extreme of circumstances, if a maintainer is hiding issues behind the stale bot, it could be interpreted as abandonment and a fork should be made.

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