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Ask HN: A profile that keeps opening pull requests with AI-generated code?
If you look at this person’s profile, you’ll see they open multiple pull requests on random repositories, in various programming languages.
For example, they submitted two completely nonsensical and non-functional pull requests to one of my projects, and it’s extremely annoying.
How is GitHub planning to deal with this kind of AI-generated spam?
These are likely profiles trying to inflate their contribution history, possibly to use it when applying for jobs.
Unfortunately, GitHub doesn’t give me the option to delete these pull requests, so they’ll stay there forever unless I migrate my code to another platform.
Profile https://github.com/wonderinglostsoul44
- mococa 2y agoAnother example https://github.com/MythScara/PrismaGodot/pulls https://github.com/MythScara/PrismaGodot/pulls
- JohnFen 2y ago> GitHub doesn’t give me the option to delete these pull requests What?? I don't use GitHub so don't know how it works, but I assumed that rejecting pull requests was a thing that was possible. It seems like fundamental functionality.
- mococa 2y agoGitHub has a philosophy of preservation, so once a pull request is submitted, it cannot be deleted.
- JohnFen 2y agoNot deleting it is different than keeping it in an active UI queue, though. What happens if you reject a pull request? You just have to live with it being in the way (UI-wise) forever? If so, that just seems like an invitation to spam projects to death.