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by beart 140 days ago
Wow, what is the context for all of these spam PRs?
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Tldw: a popular YouTube video on “how to open a PR on GitHub” by an Indian channel (targeting Indian audiences) showed how to add their name to a PR step by step. The rest is just the scale of the Indian population in action. I hope the maintainers of expressjs can rest easy
I am from India and i would like to apologize for this matter.

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Advise from low-quality bootcamp-like training programs that encourage open-source contribution, providing low-quality examples of such contribution, in order to improve one's resume and career chances.