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by freedomben 1116 days ago
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)
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foobiekr 1116 days ago
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.
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number6 1116 days ago
I did it too and now I hope people don't think I tried to scam them by being nice...
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kaliqt 1116 days ago
I doubt it. I too submit small fixes.
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Breza 1116 days ago
Same here. Typos bother me. Rather than complaining, I just submit a PR to fix particularly egregious ones.
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jcparkyn 1116 days ago
[Citation needed]
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maksimur 1116 days ago
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.
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