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But this is not spam. It's based on morons trying to make it in the software world without any basis that they should be there. They're doing this so that they

But this is not spam. It's based on morons trying to make it in the software world without any basis that they should be there. They're doing this so that they can put "I have x amount of accepted pullrequests on github" and fool an employer to hire them. To become shit team members or outsourced to become shit offshore team members*. I have seen these kinds in many a project. Real world experience. Real talk.

bauerd 6y ago
The major incentive here is a free tshirt
- unixhero 6y ago
  Good point. I guess that's even worse. Hillarious really. Like something out of a Rick and Morty episode. You couldn't make this up.
  - Xunjin 6y ago
    The episode name would be something like "haker man" And Ricky (drunk like always) would probably say: "Morty, gonna tell you something, everybody these days call themselves 'programmers/coders/hackers' all they do is watch a Javascript Course, barely, type some stupid shit like 'Hello World' and they feel like a great scientist Morty, you really understand how stupid is this, Morty?! They share that in all the 'social media' trendy moron stuffy like Twitter, a place even more cancerous than me Morty. In the end Morty, burrp, I'm actually the Genius who discovered Time Travel and invented the Portal Gun."
- chefkoch 6y ago
  Why would you nedd dozens of PRs for this?
  - falcolas 6y ago
    To get at least one through the spam filters.
- m463 6y ago
  ...that you can wear to an interview?
raxxorrax 6y ago
It is for publicity purposes of digital ocean. Gray area, they do incentivize participation in open source but also are responsible for this hug of death.
- dannyw 6y ago
  These contributions are junk and spam. I don’t think any maintainer will be upset if they get 100 legitimate and well intentioned pull requests, but we’re talking about spam here.
johannes1234321 6y ago
> They're doing this so that they can put "I have x amount of accepted pullrequests on github" and fool an employer to hire them. Yes, I have seen a bunch of those on popular repositories over the years. It is an annoyance, but usually so little, even on popular repos (I contributed much to PHP as example of project size) that it's easy to ignore (or even simply merge if it's somewhat useful, the fooling won't lead them far) The difference with this marketing stunt is that there is way more active encouragement for that and way more of it at once ... multiple a day instead of one every few months
raverbashing 6y ago
No kidding There is a good amount of questions on SO or tutorial blog posts that are basic, really basic stuff. Things that if you had barely any idea of what you were doing you would figure out but you don't. Oh and now guess what, this flood of PRs raises the bar and annoyances for everybody.
r-w 6y ago
Spam is like weeds: it is anything excessive, unwanted, and relatively useless.
botyrbjt 6y ago
This has become a pet peeve of mine ever since a former co-worker told me his scheme of setting up a cronjob to add a single commit with a timestamp to a project on his Github profile on a daily basis, so future employers would think he was a 10xer or something to that effect

bauerd 6y ago

The major incentive here is a free tshirt

unixhero 6y ago
Good point. I guess that's even worse. Hillarious really. Like something out of a Rick and Morty episode. You couldn't make this up.
- Xunjin 6y ago
  The episode name would be something like "haker man" And Ricky (drunk like always) would probably say: "Morty, gonna tell you something, everybody these days call themselves 'programmers/coders/hackers' all they do is watch a Javascript Course, barely, type some stupid shit like 'Hello World' and they feel like a great scientist Morty, you really understand how stupid is this, Morty?! They share that in all the 'social media' trendy moron stuffy like Twitter, a place even more cancerous than me Morty. In the end Morty, burrp, I'm actually the Genius who discovered Time Travel and invented the Portal Gun."
chefkoch 6y ago
Why would you nedd dozens of PRs for this?
- falcolas 6y ago
  To get at least one through the spam filters.
m463 6y ago
...that you can wear to an interview?

raxxorrax 6y ago

It is for publicity purposes of digital ocean. Gray area, they do incentivize participation in open source but also are responsible for this hug of death.

dannyw 6y ago
These contributions are junk and spam. I don’t think any maintainer will be upset if they get 100 legitimate and well intentioned pull requests, but we’re talking about spam here.

johannes1234321 6y ago

> They're doing this so that they can put "I have x amount of accepted pullrequests on github" and fool an employer to hire them. Yes, I have seen a bunch of those on popular repositories over the years. It is an annoyance, but usually so little, even on popular repos (I contributed much to PHP as example of project size) that it's easy to ignore (or even simply merge if it's somewhat useful, the fooling won't lead them far) The difference with this marketing stunt is that there is way more active encouragement for that and way more of it at once ... multiple a day instead of one every few months

raverbashing 6y ago

No kidding There is a good amount of questions on SO or tutorial blog posts that are basic, really basic stuff. Things that if you had barely any idea of what you were doing you would figure out but you don't. Oh and now guess what, this flood of PRs raises the bar and annoyances for everybody.

r-w 6y ago

Spam is like weeds: it is anything excessive, unwanted, and relatively useless.

botyrbjt 6y ago

This has become a pet peeve of mine ever since a former co-worker told me his scheme of setting up a cronjob to add a single commit with a timestamp to a project on his Github profile on a daily basis, so future employers would think he was a 10xer or something to that effect