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by laurent123456 1081 days ago
The "This is fine" achievement is funny but doesn't seem right. The top user ppdemo indeed has a repo where he apparently creates one issue every minute, but there's only a few open issues so he must be deleting them too:

https://github.com/pddemo/demo

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It looks like it reads the number of issues ever created, and subtracts the number of issues tagged as "closed". So "deleted" in that dataset counts as "open".
Here's additional insights regarding the repo https://devboard.gitsense.com/pddemo/demo

So far, my tool show 54 thousand issues were created by a single person in the last 6 weeks.

Full disclosure: This is my tool.

And yet Microsoft's genuinely honest public-facing page is still in the top 13.
I did find that suspicious, but that repo has no closed issues either. I wonder if they’re being cleaned up by github in a way that bypasses the issue closed event, because I don’t think there’s a way to do that normally.
You can see that issues’ numbers are through the roof.