I don't really like something like stalebot from both the maintainer and user side. As a maintainer, I don't want a legitimate issue to get closed just because it's not (yet?) a high priority for me, and I let it go for a while. And as a user, if I've provided sufficient information to reproduce the issue, and the issue is valid, it's really demotivating to have that issue closed by a bot.
I think stalebot works so long as maintainers commit to marking issues as "confirmed" after a while, or if enough people +1. However too often that is not the case.
Multiple times have I filed an issue, that collects many people's "me too" and workarounds for over a year. And every month, stalebot comes and mentions everybody, so that I have to go and type in that stalebot command.
Until one day I give up, because I don't want to get those notifications anymore, or because I move to a more active project. The issue gets closed even though multiple people are affected, and all they can do is open a new one, link to the workarounds somehow, and take over the duty of fighting the bot.
Why make everyone do this? You say you don't owe me anything, but that's different from taking active step to hurt your community.
