Comment by IshKebab
6 hours ago
I would not be at all surprised if Github adds a first party reputation system. It would be a clever way to increase network effects - imagine if you host on Codeberg you're inundated by AI PRs but on Github you can easily filter them out.
I can't see those pull request limits working very well. It's like trying to filter email spam by just rate limiting people. It's going to be annoying for the people you actually want to talk to, and you're still going to get at least 1 spam message from every spammer out there.
If we want to keep it objective, one metric can already be calculated based on the user history of the submitter. The spammers profile will be full of unmerged or abandoned prs. Just based on those statistics beginners might be close to zero rating but spammers would be negative.
Unless I totally missed that people are also making new accounts of each PR.
Prs are too pad cv's or novice users wanting something and vibe coding it themselves. Jellyfin player repos see a lot these kinds of prs so unlikely to be new users
Or creating repos that will merge their PR(s).
Create lots of fake repos/prs to improve your ratio?