[TorKlingberg]

Github makes it hard to tell what code is yours and what is something you just forked from somebody else.

[pbhjpbhj]

I thought it showed on the page if a project was forked; perhaps it makes fraud possible but wouldn't it be spotted almost immediately when you started work, if it wasn't spotted then arguably it doesn't matter.

[Bartweiss]

"Almost immediately when you started work" is precisely too late, though. If you hire purely off GitHub and get someone who lifted their code (instead of forking it), that's a huge price.

Bad hires inflict huge costs up front, in wasted interview opportunities and startup costs and lost training time and morale hits and a dozen other things. "Fire fast" is popular advice because it's better than firing slow, not because unsuccessful hires are a sustainable event.

[tjalfi]

Forks of GitHub repositories are marked as such, forks of projects hosted on other sites are not.