"Human DDoS" — when a single person grinds a conversation to a halt not by breaking any rules on paper, but by sheer volume of engagement. Maintainers get overwhelmed, bystanders disengage, nobody can keep track, and the effort strands.
It's honestly a pretty effective way of derailing consensus efforts in projects that aren't good at telling people to cut their shit out (which can be done nicely yet firmly).
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