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Re:GitHub Says ‘No Thanks’ to Bots — Even if They’re Nice by Deestan on Saturday December 29, 2012 @12:46PM (#4982736)
The problem is that you will also get these: https://github.com/ajaxorg/node-github/pull/45

The account in question has been closed now, but it submitted thousands of pull requests to random projects to advertise their build service.

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Re:GitHub Says ‘No Thanks’ to Bots — Even if They’re Nice by toobulkeh on Saturday December 29, 2012 @03:14PM (#4983277)
I'm pretty sure with a community like GitHub, those advertisements would turn around and hurt their service, instead of help it.

Even if it was the best build service in the world, as a hacker I wouldn't personally use it.

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Re:GitHub Says ‘No Thanks’ to Bots — Even if They’re Nice by dbaupp on Saturday December 29, 2012 @05:15PM (#4983696)
As technoweenie said:

That was also a troll/spam bot that had no affiliation to Travis CI. Their GitHub integration has always been classy.

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Re:GitHub Says ‘No Thanks’ to Bots — Even if They’re Nice by technoweenie on Saturday December 29, 2012 @04:16PM (#4983509)
That was also a troll/spam bot that had no affiliation to Travis CI. Their GitHub integration has always been classy.
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