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GitHub is like any other commercial social network. It appoints trophies and rewards to those who play the 'game' in some meaningful way. GitHub doesn't even do
by favourable 4y ago
GitHub is like any other commercial social network. It appoints trophies and rewards to those who play the 'game' in some meaningful way. GitHub doesn't even do rate limiting on follows and actually encourages bot behavior for anyone wanting to artificially inflate their follower count (it's trivial to do this). This has lead me to believe most accounts are fluff accounts who chase metrics instead of meaningful contributions.