Why don't we just pagerank github contributors? Merged PRs approved by other quality contributors improves rank. New PRs tagged by a bot with the rank of the submitter. Add more scoring features (account age? employer?) as desired.

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SoftTalker 9 hours ago | parent [-]

It will be gamed, just as pagerank was.

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0x3f 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Of course, but killing the 80% of low hanging fruit is already valuable. The rest is an arms race like always.

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cafebabbe 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Not by everyone, so that would be better than nothing.

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bastawhiz 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Excited to have to do SEM for my GitHub profile so that people will read my pull requests

	▲	0x3f an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Well it's all going to be social credit one day. Might as well get in practice early.