I call this technique: "sprAI and prAI".
It's essentially spam, automatically generated content that is profitable in large volume because it offsets the real cost to the victims, by wasting their limited attention span.
If you wantme to read your text, you should have the common courtesy to at least put in a similar work beforehand and read it yourself at least once.
We have reviewed your claims and found that [the account impersonating your grandma] has not violated our guidelines.
That still gives the next slopper a chance to waste the same amount of time. People used to call this the "one bite of your apple" attack -- it's only fair to give everyone a chance to prove that they aren't malicious, but if you do that in an environment where there are more attackers than you have resources, you still lose.
And worst of all, every “extra-cirricular” group was allowed to abuse the company-wide mailing list to promote their softball games or trivia or whatever else.
One of the most enraging things to me is when a text search of documentation fails because the word I'm searching for has been misspelled in a key place. That's one of the things I'm trying to solve for.
I'm also just a stickler for good style. It bums me out when people misuse heading levels. Heading level is not a font size markup!
Of course doing this does generate activity on my GH, but I think all of us have probably moved on from caring much about the optics of little green squares.
Also like someone else said, it's just fun. I like typing and making Git do a thing and using my nice keyboard.
I want to start a company with you and mandate all documents use appropriate styles.
Didn't want to be seen as just padding my github.
I know my intention was simply fixing a typo I stumbled on while reading the docs..and the effort level is so low to open a PR to fix it
This used to mean something, but I don't think it does anymore.
It's MLM in tech.