It's not just you. I always thought this statement ("github is a social media platform") to be a bit of a meme. I've never had any interactions like that, nor h

It's not just you. I always thought this statement ("github is a social media platform") to be a bit of a meme. I've never had any interactions like that, nor have seen anyone else do it. Some users prefer to make their profile a bulletin board of their "achievements" (real achievements speak for themselves without glitz or unicorn symbols), or use it as something of a PR platform. You can easily avoid those types. (For example, these was a pretty funny LGTM from some random guy on the recent multicore OCaml pull request in like 5-10 minutes since it was posted. The PR in question is a giant and very complicated patchset that was in the works for about a decade, I think?)