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by SwiftyBug 2063 days ago
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 ».
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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.