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Why don't we just pagerank github contributors? Merged PRs approved by other quality contributors improves rank. New PRs tagged by a bot with the rank of the

by 0x3f 6mo ago

Why don't we just pagerank github contributors? Merged PRs approved by other quality contributors improves rank. New PRs tagged by a bot with the rank of the submitter. Add more scoring features (account age? employer?) as desired.

SoftTalker 6mo ago
It will be gamed, just as pagerank was.
- cafebabbe 6mo ago
  Not by everyone, so that would be better than nothing.
  - bastawhiz 6mo ago
    Excited to have to do SEM for my GitHub profile so that people will read my pull requests
    - 0x3f 6mo ago
      Well it's all going to be social credit one day. Might as well get in practice early.
- 0x3f 6mo ago
  Of course, but killing the 80% of low hanging fruit is already valuable. The rest is an arms race like always.