Agreed. Github isn't a purely professional tool, and NPM isn't a purely professional tool, and Javascript isn't a purely professional tool.

I'm seeing comments on here that some of these people are acting like high school kids. Some of them probably are high school kids.

And that's fine. One of the biggest goals of Open Source in the first place is that software shouldn't only be developed and used by professionals. If you want that reality, you have to tolerate that unprofessional people are sometimes going to be part of the surrounding conversation for some projects.

In short, if the NPM maintainers hate this, they can modify community rules or remove spammy posts. And if they don't hate it, then I don't really get what the big deal is about allowing people to be unprofessional when talking about code -- other than maybe arguing that Github should have better filtering tools for readers.

Indeed, Github intrinsically caters for both hobbyist coders (some of whom may be quite young) and professional devs. Some degree of culture shock is inevitable.

It's not about employment status. Injecting noise into a channel that is currently being used to diagnose a severe bug affecting many people disrespects the time of those working to fix the issue. Other, more appropriate venues are available for people who want to blow off some steam.