Ask HN: Are we really getting into the “GitFluencers” era?

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People are getting paid to open a PR on open source repositories to generate traction, I think this is genius but I can understand why it might feel odd for some. See Sophie Albert's tweet : https://twitter.com/sophiebits/status/1193686558206877696

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If you knew someone was getting paid to open PRs on projects they normally wouldn’t, why would you keep following them?

The guy complaining that he “sent this in confidence” thereby outing himself is priceless.

> The guy complaining that he “sent this in confidence” thereby outing himself is priceless.

It's a joke

Is it? The reply seems to nail it down.

It is, the reply is just the original tweeter continuing the joke. https://twitter.com/jdan/status/1193871077790932993

It certainly is, but not an intentional one

I suggest you read his latest reply, I'm honestly not sure how it would be misinterpreted as being serious

People are definitely making packages, just to make packages and look good, and do other things good, too, I guess. Just to mention the triumvirate of awful that exist, in this case is-even, is-odd, is-number: That's at least trying hard to act like an influencer. Or influenza. One of those. I don't care, it's vapid junk.

IDK the gitfluencer moniker makes me think like youtubers always ending the videos begging for likes and subscribes

> If you liked that commit don't forget to merge in that PR and smash that follow button!

Great term coinage. Seems we are. I'm not even surprised although this is the first time I've heard of this happening. Getting people to pay attention is hard.

I think this is the most direct way to increase visibility on a project.

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