Why isn't this just an email to the author?
Had he asked for money, I probably would not have sent any. But he asked for something that I can provide with ease, so I did. And I enjoyed it.
Is that really what this is about? Is it wrong to do good if it might benefit the do-gooder in some way? Can we all take a collective moment to think critically about that? :)
(anyway, you're wrong(ish?). Posting an issue does not appear to have added my name to https://github.com/magcius/xplain/graphs/contributors . Though I could have sworn that I've seen what you are talking about happen before. \shrug\, that's github's fault.)
On your last paragraph, yes, github used to show who reports issues as contributed to the project to which they reported. I recall at one point having reported an embarassing silly issue (a very stupid config mistake I made that I don't recall) to Pelican blogware and it went there among the contributed projects as a badge of dishonour. :) But now I checked, that section seems to be gone from the profile page on gihtub.
https://github.com/magcius/xplain/commit/91fde0e87116ec834f1...
> If you have any questions or comments, _or just want to thank me_, feel free to email me....