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Dear Github, can I go home now?

25 pointsby lucasnemethabout 11 years ago

6 comments

peterjmagabout 11 years ago
Looks like he&#x27;s just trying to shed some light on how bogus those activity graphs are (and also illustrating how easy it is to game them). The GitHub contributions graph probably shouldn&#x27;t be used for any sort of meaningful measurement of skill, open source involvement, job candidacy—or anything else really. I found the two related articles linked in the readme really interesting:<p><a href="http://www.ashedryden.com/blog/the-ethics-of-unpaid-labor-and-the-oss-community" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ashedryden.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;the-ethics-of-unpaid-labor-an...</a><p><a href="https://blog.jcoglan.com/2013/11/15/why-github-is-not-your-cv/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.jcoglan.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;11&#x2F;15&#x2F;why-github-is-not-your-c...</a><p>(Still reading the first one.)
digganabout 11 years ago
Before I checked what it was, I checked the profile of the person behind it and saw that he had contributed to open source code for more than a year. I thought that was very cool and noble and continued to read the readme of the repository and found out that everything about the person&#x27;s history is fake<p>So if your purpose was to make people believe that you&#x27;re a good contributor and then realise you&#x27;re just a liar who fake his contributions, you&#x27;ve done the right thing!
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nickfargoabout 11 years ago
People whose opinions of you really matter know that the green boxes don&#x27;t.
alexnkingabout 11 years ago
As much as I hate gamification, I feel like it&#x27;s probably been used for worse things...
jenandreabout 11 years ago
so... you want customizable metrics&#x2F;views for your github page?<p>how far til this becomes `myspace for code`?
davidy123about 11 years ago
Indeed, github is hamster wheeling people.