Be a Good Steward of Open-Source Software!

I had to ban a troll from my GitHub projects who never behaved like a good member of the open-source software community as he always just talked and talked without ever taking any useful actions, like reading documentation, following instructions, creating examples, writing documentation, contributing pull requests, or sharing code examples in issue reports, forgetting that open source projects are 100% free community contribution efforts and aren't paid closed-source software that entitles the user to anything.

Reminder of how good members of the open-source software community behave:

• They make an effort to read an open-source project's docs and try it out on their computer to answer their own questions before asking questions about an open source project.
• They build and share real examples of using an open-source project when reporting issues instead of just writing down very abstract words that might not relate to reality and might miss the fact that the project does provide solutions for the reported issues.
• They give back by writing documentation they feel is missing from an open source project and use that as an opportunity to become open source contributors to the open-source project.
• They give back by contributing simple issue fixes as pull requests to an open-source project, using that as an opportunity to become open source contributors to the open-source project.
• They interact with open-source project maintainers with an attitude of humility and respect of their effort and time.

Bad members of the open-source software community behave this way:

• They act entitled like they are more important than the creators of open-source projects (as opposed to equal to them) and think they are owed the privilege of paid service on 100% free and open source software projects, expecting 100% hand holding on everything, instead of being expected to be responsible strong software engineers who can figure things out for themselves by reading open-source code and minimalistic documentation. Also, they don't realize that they are being evaluated by open-source project creators on whether they are competent Software Engineers and respectable members of the open-source software community instead of being entitled devs that lose merit if they ask questions without putting in any of their own effort or demonstrating understanding of solid Software Engineering and open-source software principles.
• They do not spend at least 10-30 minutes reading documentation or trying out an open-source project before asking very trivial questions they could have answered for themselves with very little effort.
• They complain about missing documention instead of realizing this is 100% free open-source software, not paid closed-source software, and using missing documentation as an opportunity to gain the honor of becoming contributors to an open-source project.
• They report issues without writing any code examples and they ask questions with a very haughty rude entitled attitude as if they are more important than the open-source project creators when in fact, their entitled attitude loses them merit and drops their importance way below that of the maintainers who at least spent time and effort to contribute something to the worldwide open-source software community for free.
• They do not contribute pull requests for very trivial issues that they could have contributted fixs for themselves to intelligently gain the honor of becoming contributors for an open-source project.
• They do not contribute time beta-testing or using an open-source project in low-risk situations to help contribute feedback to very novel and innovative open-source ideas to show good faith in wanting to support innovation/excellence and help open-source software.

Good stewards of open-source software are the kind of Software Engineers that is considered the top of the line when hiring at Software Businsses. Be a good member of the open-source software community to help it come up with better ways of serving customers with open-source software while improving your resume and your hirability and job retention!