> If we can make contributing to open source projects as exciting as playing Factorio or watching TikTok, that's a huge benefit to society. If you suck at Fact

> If we can make contributing to open source projects as exciting as playing Factorio or watching TikTok, that's a huge benefit to society. If you suck at Factorio or waste time on TikTok, it doesn't really affect anyone else other than yourself and your direct friends/family. If you're contributing to OSS to earn points based solely on participation and not quality/value, you're having a negative effect on the signal-to-noise ratio and quality of the OSS community. That is NOT a huge benefit to society. Simple participation isn't inherently beneficial if that participation is just a source of noise. I speak as someone who has had to sift through and reject pull requests and issues from incompetent developers. I'd rather they not be encouraged to waste my time.