[Liquidor]

I like this feature.

I understand that it's not for everyone, but I also feel like people here tend to forget that GitHub is a social coding/collaboration platform as well. If you didn't like these features, why are your projects on GitHub then? Plenty of other git solutions.

I see some comments worried about this feature being abused or misused in regards to "bad contributions" however those contributions would either just be rejected, as they should, or accepted by the maintainers which means the badges worked to begin with, promoting more open-source collaboration.

[prepend]

> If you didn't like these features, why are your projects on GitHub then

Because it also works really well for solo projects or private projects.

I chose GitHub many years ago not because they were social but because they were free and accessible. The competitors at the time were sourceforge and Google code and neither of them were as easy to use or simple.

I use GitHub in spite of its dumb social features, not because of it.

This reminds me of the “if you don’t love guns, why do you live in America, gtfo” people are complicated and have multiple, sometimes conflicting, motivations.

[xigoi]

Moving to another Git host is much easier than moving out of the USA.

[prepend]

Yes, but the analogy stands. I can stick with an imperfect system and it’s not reasonable to leave over new features I don’t like.