>I do not think I can code well enough to look down at other people for coding ability.
That's kind of the point of social coding. If I care and think that I can help your project, I'll suggest a solution that I'm capable of implementing (pull request).
>Social is transforming to a place to socialize, and the latter I do not like for Github or anywhere else for enthusiast programming.
No one is forcing you to do anything. You can post your code for others to see without interacting.
>I wrote a small README, uploaded a SVG of the MySQL DB structure to get an idea, and had not written any of the Python I described. I received three stars a week later, and not a single line of code yet. How does that even make sense?
Maybe someone liked your idea or starred it as a reminder to come back later.
>and the hundred or so comments supporting various views on women and IT and superfluous garbage showed it was a hot topic.
Political opinions don't require an understanding of the issue or any ability. To talk about code, the amount of ability and understanding increases with the complexity of the sample. Which is to say, of course the noise political discussion drowns out talk about coding because there's more potential participants.
>Some people write cutesy meaningless libraries to get attention.
So what?
>But what I do not like is the stress Github is now turning the celebration of open programming and collaboration into, merely a celebrity contest.
Do you think that this behavior comes from Github or its users?
>I never broke more than 1, on anything)
Earlier you said that you received multiple stars for a project you hadn't coded.
I'm going to stop responding because you're responding with anecdotes, some of which are fictitious.
That's kind of the point of social coding. If I care and think that I can help your project, I'll suggest a solution that I'm capable of implementing (pull request).
>Social is transforming to a place to socialize, and the latter I do not like for Github or anywhere else for enthusiast programming.
No one is forcing you to do anything. You can post your code for others to see without interacting.
>I wrote a small README, uploaded a SVG of the MySQL DB structure to get an idea, and had not written any of the Python I described. I received three stars a week later, and not a single line of code yet. How does that even make sense?
Maybe someone liked your idea or starred it as a reminder to come back later.
>and the hundred or so comments supporting various views on women and IT and superfluous garbage showed it was a hot topic.
Political opinions don't require an understanding of the issue or any ability. To talk about code, the amount of ability and understanding increases with the complexity of the sample. Which is to say, of course the noise political discussion drowns out talk about coding because there's more potential participants.
>Some people write cutesy meaningless libraries to get attention.
So what?
>But what I do not like is the stress Github is now turning the celebration of open programming and collaboration into, merely a celebrity contest.
Do you think that this behavior comes from Github or its users?
>I never broke more than 1, on anything)
Earlier you said that you received multiple stars for a project you hadn't coded.
I'm going to stop responding because you're responding with anecdotes, some of which are fictitious.