[RandallBrown]

If someone took the time to look through my GitHub contributions then pitched me with a job relevant to that work I would absolutely consider them. That's exactly the kind of recruiter I would like to work with.

If it's obviously just a bot scraping emails and sending generic job requests, that's very different.

[devmor]

> If it's obviously just a bot scraping emails and sending generic job requests, that's very different.

It's not even that nice. They scrape emails and send cold calls to try to get you to purchase their services.

[jamesfinlayson]

Yeah this - I got one of these emails someone sniffing around my GitHub not that long ago and it wasn't immediately obvious that it was a scammy recruiter, so I responded to sound out if they were actually interested in one of my projects. Got the same generic response about let's work together on something so I didn't respond.

[genxy]

Find everyone who starred this repo and did a PR against these 10 repos is within reach of all marketers now. I just told them how.

[keiferski]

Yeah I mean as a marketing tactic to sell your product. An employer / recruiter offering you work this way is different.