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The important part is to close the issue. How you do that depends on the nature of the request.

A #someday tag is a mollifying way of saying "Not on the roadmap, don't hate it, not planning to ever look at this again".

The advantage is: it's not an open issue. Flogging a closed issue is widely understood to be antisocial behavior, and opening a variation on a closed issue is open-and-shut rude.

You can ban someone who does this as an ordinary matter of policy, no one will judge you negatively for it.

As long as it's an 'open issue', a certain class of entitled developer will feel free to harass you about it.



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