I think people set up those bots without even starting to think through the consecuences of doing so. There is nothing more hostile to users than a program that misbehaves, searching and finding that the problem was reported in 2017 and closed afterwards with the excuse of no activity for the last 6 months (or any other equally ridiculously short amount of time).
Bugs won't fix themselves due to not talking about them. If you want to close a report, have a human check if the reported misbehavior does still happen, and close the bug if not (or if no way to reproduce was found). Projects seem to forget that issue reports are reports on defects of their code, so they should be the first interested in fixing whatever is wrong.
I'm the kind of user who takes the time and effort to report bugs (and I'd say that already puts me on a small % of users). But when I see these "closed because of no activity", I just say "F.U., really" and go away.
I think this is a filter that allows the issues submitted by other big companies to get the attention they deserve while at the same time maintaining the facade of operating as an open source project
Bugs won't fix themselves due to not talking about them. If you want to close a report, have a human check if the reported misbehavior does still happen, and close the bug if not (or if no way to reproduce was found). Projects seem to forget that issue reports are reports on defects of their code, so they should be the first interested in fixing whatever is wrong.
I'm the kind of user who takes the time and effort to report bugs (and I'd say that already puts me on a small % of users). But when I see these "closed because of no activity", I just say "F.U., really" and go away.