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Re:We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –au... by zarzavat on Monday May 18, 2026 @01:51PM (#48182964)
What? No. A PR is me giving my time to the project. I don't get anything out of it except the warm feeling of having helped out. If I have to pay money to submit a PR then I'm going to play video games instead.
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Re:We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –au... by rglullis on Monday May 18, 2026 @05:12PM (#48185708)
> A PR is me giving my time to the project

Unfortunately, the issue is that time is not enough of a filter anymore. The time from machines is basically worthless compared to yours, so you need to give something else, and that something else needs to be something that shows you have actual skin in the game.

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Re:We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –au... by Lyrkan on Monday May 18, 2026 @06:28PM (#48186671)
> so you need to give something else

Well no, they don't need to. As they said they could just do something else instead of contributing (and I know I would too).

Your proposal would just end up killing those open source projects even more than what you are trying to solve.

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Re:We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –au... by rglullis on Monday May 18, 2026 @07:33PM (#48187341)
> Your proposal would just end up killing those open source projects

Name 3 open source projects that are dependent on a continuous stream of first-time contributors to keep going.

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