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All the metrics based around how many commits you have made, how many stars your repo has, etc. Why is that info gamified? Its a dopamine addiction channel.

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It’s for subset of people who cares about that. You can just blanket-ignore everyone who cares about that, and move on.

Yeah but then VC use these metrics to fund projects and suddenly what was previously a joke now becomes a way to make wealth.

Seriously?

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