[antihero]

I feel like trying to get meaningless PRs accepted on big projects is a desperate attempt at gaining clout by being listed on contributors so people can say "yeah I've worked on this huge thing" and people likely won't check what they have actually done.

[SwiftyBug]

Would people actually do this? Any context in which "having participated in this huge thing" would be valuable (such as a job interview) would require the person to explain their role in such "huge thing". This can backfire awfully if the answer to that is "I replaced « I'm with I am ».

[carterklein13]

A lot of people do this - just like I've seen a lot of people put "Arctic Code Vault Contributor" on their LinkedIn pages, or list that they're a student at MIT because they're taking a Coursera course taught by an MIT professor. Typically, the folks who do this do not really consider the quality of work put on a resume/LinkedIn. Having contributed to some open-source projects over the past couple, I've come across this a lot.