[andrew_]

What constitutes "bullshit"? I ask because I wouldn't want new contributors, or folks considering a contribution to shy away from one after reading a comment like that. In the large projects I'm a part of maintaining, even small typo fixes are welcome (and encouraged) because as maintainers we just can't see everything. Will people abuse small PRs to try and raise their profile? Sure. Do I believe everyone has ill intent? Not at all.

I really appreciate small Pull Requests that come in to fix small things - it's something I don't have to do as maintainer, and it lets someone take a small step towards a larger contribution.

[carterklein13]

Definitely a valid point, I'll clarify because I definitely don't want people to shy away from open-source as I think it's some of the more altruistic work developers can do. Even typo fixes may not be a bad thing. I more mean things like a PR that removes a contraction (i.e. I've gotten a PR changing "won't" to "will not" in one place).