Comment by teraflop
5 years ago
For an idea of the magnitude of this problem, just do a search for recently-created pull requests with the text "improve docs": https://github.com/pulls?q=is%3Apr+%22improve+docs%22
By my count, the rate of these PRs has increased from about 20/hour (averaged over the past month) to about 200/hour (in the last 12 hours), with the vast majority of the recent ones being worthless spam.
That link didn't work for me, but this does: https://github.com/search?o=desc&q=is%3Apr+%22improve+docs%2...
"Update readme" is similarly terrifying: https://github.com/search?o=desc&p=2&q=is%3Aopen+is%3Apr+%22...
Wow, that is just terrible. Not just the wasted hours of maintainers. But many of those PRs set off CI builds, leading to more wasted energy and potential carbon emissions.