[angersock]

To play the other side of this...

It's not a good thing. Submitting proper bug reports is hard, and contributing to an existing project without making more work for others can be hard as well.

The best software does the most with the least amount of code while still being easy to read--and when a library or app gets there, it's time to stop.

The problem with a hypothetical swarm of people trying to pad their Githubs (the same way premeds pad their CVs, for example) is that they'll flood otherwise stable projects with garbage, or start rewrites for no other reason than they think they can do it better. A lot of good projects are going to get fucked up this way.