Something up with notifications on this note, not getting one, just seeing this in the wild. Double checked by closing Damus and reopening. Whatever...
Didn't know all that was possible, surprising. Figured that stuff was games regardless though. And agree with you on rekting them.
As for grants stuff, too far removed to have opinion, but find it had to believe my favorite bitcoin investors would be so lazy in their DD. Could some of these anecdotes perhaps be sour grapes? I'd be more inclined to believe the claims that sucking up on social media etc is a larger factor
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Yeah definitely some sour grapes in there but scaling up FOSS grants incentivizes grant orgs to find efficiencies. The difference between 'efficiencies' and 'shortcuts' is a matter of perspective.
I don't have any hard evidence and I don't expect to ever find it but if you follow the incentives it's not a stretch to believe this happens.
I've seen folks low key take shots at me for my github profile having 'fake projects' and 'fake commits'. Those are lazy takes confirming a preexisting bias. These folks don't yet grok that green squares are a gameable metric. We should help them understand by gaming them harder in a more widespread manner.
I also think there's a big opportunity to grow ngit and similar projects by introducing similar gameable metrics. I hope someone looks into it seriously.