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Here is the github wide list of spam PRs. https://github.com/search?p=5&q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed+label%3Aspam+created%3A%3E%3D2020-09-30&type=Issues https://githu

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• DarthGhandi 6y ago
  Are you honestly that surprised? People have started to value things like GitHub forks and stars as though they mean something. Create a metric and it will get abused, this is how the world works.
  • ardfard 6y ago
    See Cobra Effect[1] which (ironically) named after an anecdote originated from India [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect
  • DarkWiiPlayer 6y ago
    Stars usually mean your project is useful to someone, so they are indeed nice to see. They're also an endorsement of people who use a project and are apparently happy, so the project is more likely to do what it says and do it well. These metrics aren't usually a problem until people attempt to game the system like it's done on platforms like youtube, but I'm not aware of this happening on github (at least not often).
• mk_chan 6y ago
  Not surprising to me (I'm in India), whenever I've reviewed someone's resume and they have a GitHub it's always a few dark green dots on a few days in an entire year for several years (and often just 2 years). Pretty sure it's done for no reason other than to check a box on some recruiting agency's form "I contribute to open source"