They didn't say it was bad, they just said it wasn't a useful signal. One thing I'm seeing more commonly is where a group of people create github profiles with

They didn't say it was bad, they just said it wasn't a useful signal. One thing I'm seeing more commonly is where a group of people create github profiles with a handful of projects that are obvious homework assignments, and then open and close a few issues and pull in some trivial changes to each others' repos in order to put a few green dots on their contributor graphs. Sad really.