WhitespaceBot spamming GitHub accounts

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3 pointsjamesbritt2 comments

Just trying to be playful, sheesh.

It's funny how polarizing this has been. Some people love the robot and invite it to fix more of their repositories, and some get offended and call it a spam bot. I tried to minimize the spaminess - it's open source, it does something marginally useful, and it never contacts you again. If that's not enough for you well then.. tough cookies, I guess. Welcome to the internet.

When you create something polarizing, usually that's a sign you're onto a good thing.

I wonder how the people who've felt spammed would feel if it were a human GitHub user that had contacted them with the same changes.

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