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> It’s a systemic problem, and the fact that you’ve somehow “risen above it” is not a reason to virtue signal. (As an Indian) As much as I agree with you, I fe
by d3nj4l 6y ago
> It’s a systemic problem, and the fact that you’ve somehow “risen above it” is not a reason to virtue signal.
(As an Indian) As much as I agree with you, I feel like this is different. I'm worried spam on this scale will damage the reputation of Indian OSS contributors.
- xrisk 6y agoBlame DigitalOcean for not making this opt-in. Blame a bad implementation. Blame anything. But are you seriously gonna blame people looking for free swag? How many of us haven’t done something for swag before?
- d3nj4l 6y agoI completely agree with you, but at the end of the day, it doesn't matter who shoulders the blame if OSS maintainers start to get wary of README/docs PRs from github users with Indian-sounding names.
- saagarjha 6y agoIt’s fairly trivial to tell a spammy PR from a legitimate one by just looking at the content of it. Even if a docs change by an Indian account who joined yesterday, if it fixes a real typo or something then it is legitimate is it not?