I remember your case personally and reached out to you over email to apologize at that time last year. If there is anything else did wrong, please let us know
It is sad that developers from global south usually have to perform at a much higher level than their peers at the north, just because unfounded prejudices.
I’ve seen great developers from basically everywhere, but the vast majority is garbage (at least at first).
To be charitable: could have been that the commit started off big and complex, getting modified and reviewed by several people over time... before one person finally figured out how to simplify it down to one line — and so then they rebase-squashed it down to just that line, rather than polluting your commit history with all the intervening nonsense.
Worth acknowledging that GitStart has, at least in the past, submitted PRs to open source projects unsolicited in an attempt to bolster their reputation.
We found their PRs to be of extremely rough quality - exactly what you would expect from junior offshore developers - and it took up a non-trivial amount of our time to deal with the contributions and get them into a state where they could be merged. We would also often find 10+ email addresses associated with a single one-line change commit, which I found quite odd.
While I/we encourage contributions from developers of all levels, it felt super iffy that we were investing in coaching the junior developers of the YC/VC-backed startup, only for them to use us for cred.
In the end I believe we blocked GitStart from our repo.