Chris Carella
@ccarella.eth
Teams sometimes reward GitHub contributors with their airdrop. Makes sense, devs should be rewarded. As a result there is now a airdrop farmer type who uses ChatGPT to find typos and submits PRs against it. They often get merged because it’s free to merge and no one wants typos but maintainers complain that they are spammy and not worth the context shift and attention it takes to review the PR. They are sometimes appreciated but often considered low value PRs.
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maurelian
@maurelian.eth
Optimism gets a ton of this. IF there ever were an airdrop I have no doubt that this would be screened out. Pretty easy to identify: small diffs in code comments and markdown files.
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Kieran Daniels 🎩
@kdaniels.eth
If OP airdrops they are going to screen out the majority of users. This song has been sung before.
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maurelian
@maurelian.eth
Of course they will, it’s called a Sybil “attack” and deserves to be defended against.
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Kieran Daniels 🎩
@kdaniels.eth
I’ve yet to seen this be executed without also removing the majority of legitimate users.
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maurelian
@maurelian.eth
I concede that’s possible, I’m unable to evaluate the quality of the filtering, but to the extent a project wishes to reward its community with an airdrop, making the effort is unavoidable.
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Kieran Daniels 🎩
@kdaniels.eth
OP has always been a good ole boys club. Starting with whitelist to access.
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maurelian
@maurelian.eth
Not sure about boys, head of the Foundation is a woman. The whitelist is gone, though I’m grateful everyday that we had it otherwise it’d have been near impossible to achieve ethereum equivalence. What lasting negative impact does it have?
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