[admtal]

Someone submitted a PR to me yesterday on my open source repo fixing a typo — did not occur to me it was part of this strange con

[freedomben]

It probably was legitimate. There are tons of people (myself included) that send PRs to fix typos and such. I also accept PRs like that to my own projects.

A lot more people will read the docs than the code, and typos are annoying and for some people highly distracting (OCD)

[foobiekr]

It probably was not legitimate. There are wonderful people like you but they are dwarfed by the thousands of scam accounts using this method to try and engineer legitimacy.

[number6]

I did it too and now I hope people don't think I tried to scam them by being nice...

[kaliqt]

I doubt it. I too submit small fixes.

[Breza]

Same here. Typos bother me. Rather than complaining, I just submit a PR to fix particularly egregious ones.

[jcparkyn]

[Citation needed]

[maksimur]

It's reassuring to know that I'm not the only one with this issue. Typos can be extremely disruptive, often compelling me to re-read the entire sentence.

[somsak2]

how is it a con if it's a useful contribution? it's not my job to filter bot accounts used for starring repos. if a PR improves my project I'll accept it.

[lazide]

If it’s useful (actually), it’s not a con on you of course! It does pollute the overall ecosystem though, since it is used to prop up fake stars and the like.