Jokes on them, I never read the articles and only ever read the comments unless the comments indicate the article was interesting enough to read.

This. I used to use them, because I, too, have been burned by my own mistakes before. However, I had to stop using them as a plugin for GitHub because (at least when I was looking) there doesn't seem to be a way to exclude private repos from the reporting, and there were some false positives in private repos I don't want flagged. But I think the service is a good idea in general.

By writing an well-constructed and discussion-provoking article? "Mission fucking accomplished" https://xkcd.com/810/