I've complained about this before, but GitHub projects with a stale bot make me far less likely to want to take the time to carefully report issues. I think it's disrespectful of reporters' time to auto close issues they possibly put a lot of effort into filing. I don't often file bugs against Apple products for the same reason: the bugs just go into a void most of the time with absolutely no feedback, especially if they get closed as duplicates. What's the point of me investing possibly hours of my time writing thorough bug reports if they might just get closed and practically lost without a glance?

@jcsteh We use stalebot only to close issues where we ask the reporter a question and add an "Awaiting OP Action" label, and they don't reply in a week.

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@hugovk @jcsteh far too aggressive. A month, maybe. A week? Life just got busy.

@falken @jcsteh We add the label manually, and only in a few cases when we suspect the OP isn't going to reply. The issue isn't locked, and can always re-open.

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