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I scrolled through all the comments and didn’t see this answer. What better way to recruit famous people to your platform than to allow people to trivially cla
by svnt 5y ago
I scrolled through all the comments and didn’t see this answer.
What better way to recruit famous people to your platform than to allow people to trivially claim their commits until and unless they join and claim them?
It is most likely driven by customer acquisition — hence the response “working as expected!”
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