Max is a life enhancer for tech & entrepreneurship. Which seeks to blend both to build innovative products or services for the world that solves hard problems.
I think given a reward system like that a lot of people is willing to game the system. For me, it's more like I get to learn to contribute to open source. Plus getting the t-shirt is a motivation but not the main reason for me to do it.
Max is a life enhancer for tech & entrepreneurship. Which seeks to blend both to build innovative products or services for the world that solves hard problems.
For me, i prefer looking at the positivity of things. There's a saying in Chinese "A journey of thousand miles, starts with a single step". I personally believe that without this campaign, there won't be alot of awareness or people who might start to contribute to open source. Even a simple task like just the cleanup of documentation is important for open source projects as well to help in the adoption of the software.
People who are just spamming/trolling/gaming the system and don't intend to make any positive contribution should get kicked out of the contest, banned for life and no t-shirt for them
I think given a reward system like that a lot of people is willing to game the system. For me, it's more like I get to learn to contribute to open source. Plus getting the t-shirt is a motivation but not the main reason for me to do it.
100% Max, I feel the same about it.
It's just sad the negativity you see online about it.
For me, i prefer looking at the positivity of things. There's a saying in Chinese "A journey of thousand miles, starts with a single step". I personally believe that without this campaign, there won't be alot of awareness or people who might start to contribute to open source. Even a simple task like just the cleanup of documentation is important for open source projects as well to help in the adoption of the software.
100% but there is that thin line between contributing and just being stupid about it... which I can 100% agree would annoy the owners of the software.
but you are right, let's focus on all the people that DID become better and learned something 😀
People who are just spamming/trolling/gaming the system and don't intend to make any positive contribution should get kicked out of the contest, banned for life and no t-shirt for them
In my opinion the reward (the t-shirt) is silly and redundant, people's motivation should be intrinsic!