30 Jan
2022
30 Jan
'22
9:05 p.m.
On 1/30/22 04:45, Inada Naoki wrote:
On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 7:37 PM Irit Katriel
wrote:
Some people may do "approval without review" to make their "Profile" page richer, because GitHub counts it as a contribution. Creating spam issues or pull requests can be reported as spam very easily. But "approve without review" is hard to be reported as spam. So approving random issue is the most easy way to earn contributions without reported as spam.
Whnever there are metrics, some will find a way to game the system to make theirs look better - this certainly isn't limited to github, or to tech, or in any way a recent thing.