Difficulty in contributing to open-source projects due to community restrictions on LLM-generated content

Signals over time

2 observed signals across 1 sources, tracked for 0 days. Confidence: low.

What people are saying Observed

• “Initially I posted my project on ziggit forum. Respecting the rules, in my post I did mention use of LLM extensively on those projects. One of the post asked "If I used LLM", I did not get a chance to replay, right away my account was blocked on ziggit for 1 year. Thats ok I accepted it, I thought I should respect the community. In the second incident I opened a small PR with an issue which I fixed for my own project, later I created a PR. I did understand that zig community do not accept LLM written post or PR on their official repository, so I went ahead and wrote the issue myself, also for PR I wrote the code, run the test locally on my own PC, tested if it compiles and pass the test on my osx and linux. Since it was my first PR, did not expect it to be accepted and thought may be some core developer will pick the code and merge or write another code. Also I created one more issue which was closed by the core developer with a message its fixed in 0.17, I thanked the person. I saw one issue from another person facing similar issue as mine. I give a comment and also put a code snippet for him to try on his own machine, since on my machine it compiled correctly and create”

  Hacker News · frustration

• “Initially I posted my project on ziggit forum. Respecting the rules, in my post I did mention use of LLM extensively on those projects. One of the post asked "If I used LLM", I did not get a chance to replay, right away my account was blocked on ziggit for 1 year. Thats ok I accepted it, I thought I should respect the community. In the second incident I opened a small PR with an issue which I fixed for my own project, later I created a PR. I did understand that zig community do not accept LLM written post or PR on their official repository, so I went ahead and wrote the issue myself, also for PR I wrote the code, run the test locally on my own PC, tested if it compiles and pass the test on my osx and linux. Since it was my first PR, did not expect it to be accepted and thought may be some core developer will pick the code and merge or write another code. Also I created one more issue which was closed by the core developer with a message its fixed in 0.17, I thanked the person. I saw one issue from another person facing similar issue as mine. I give a comment and also put a code snippet for him to try on his own machine, since on my machine it compiled correctly and create”

  Hacker News · frustration