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Re:We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste o... by y-curious on Thursday January 22, 2026 @07:32AM (#46718405)
Reminds me of this Indian GitHub tutorial on how to open a PR on GitHub. The video got millions of views and has flooded a specific repo with countless README update PRs of people (mostly Indian) trying to append their name to the README.

Article about it here: https://socket.dev/blog/express-js-spam-prs-commoditization-...

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Re:We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste o... by efilife on Thursday January 22, 2026 @09:36AM (#46719752)
they flooded THE major server side js framework and it's happening to this day, every day. Express is something to backend what jQuery was to frontend 15 years ago
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Re:We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste o... by jcims on Thursday January 22, 2026 @10:57AM (#46720971)
Holy cow, what a mess - https://github.com/expressjs/express/pull/6956
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