Well, because we're apparently contribution-hostile. https://twitter.com/ericflo/status/107963620159266816
(I'm isaacs, node core dev and author of the url parsing module, and closer of the bug in the OP.)
(I'm isaacs, node core dev and author of the url parsing module, and closer of the bug in the OP.)
It doesn't matter whether you think you're contribution-hostile, it matters whether the guy who tried to contribute thought you came off as hostile, which he clearly did.
Getting a 'why?' and an immediate close certainly would give me a poor first impression, as a developer sending a patch for something I thought was an actual bug.