Ask HN: How do you deal with social media pressure on your GitHub project?

Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with social media pressure on you... by em3rgent0rdr on Sunday July 12, 2015 @07:39AM (#9873159)

Too bad GitHub can't weight comments/issues by quality of contributor/user instead of only providing a binary choice of "only the contributors" vs "allowing everyone".

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Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with social media pressure on you... by daenney on Sunday July 12, 2015 @01:42PM (#9874229)

But how do you measure that quality? Based on amount of contributions? Based on +1's they've received on comments?

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Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with social media pressure on you... by xmj on Sunday July 12, 2015 @01:55PM (#9874274)

Based on lines changed, merge requests accepted/rejected, etc etc.

You know, GitHub developers are quite smart.

They could just write their own weighting algorithm if they wanted to. :-)

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Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with social media pressure on you... by 672723074828 on Sunday July 12, 2015 @02:34PM (#9874395)

Those are absolutely awful metrics to use when measuring a developer's ability and talent, or the quality of this developer's contributions. They are also extremely easy to game, too.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with social media pressure on you... by xmj on Sunday July 12, 2015 @09:05PM (#9875785)

Yes, that's why I trust GitHub to come up with a (proprietary, unreleased) algorithm a la PageRank that won't easily be game-able.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with social media pressure on you... by hluska on Sunday July 12, 2015 @11:15AM (#9873708)

That is truly an excellent idea. Comments like this remind me why I love this community so much. Thanks for sharing!

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