From brief conversations with the team behind the GitHub stale bot, the original idea was clearing up tickets where the user didn't respond to the maintainer. I don't think this is what happens usually though. Sadly most cases I see are the same as the angular case in this article.
I made an issue suggesting tickets not be marked as stale if they've not had a maintainer comment yet. As you can imagine, the stale bot installed on the repo itself kept trying to close it due to it being "stale". After several months the irony wore off and I let it get closed.
I made an issue suggesting tickets not be marked as stale if they've not had a maintainer comment yet. As you can imagine, the stale bot installed on the repo itself kept trying to close it due to it being "stale". After several months the irony wore off and I let it get closed.