Achievement Hunting

[iyimawk]

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In the discussions guidelines I saw that it pointed out Achievement Hunting to be bannable.

I'm currently working on a project myself, where I wondered what types of technologies or algorithms github use to detect such activities. I'm very new to system administration as I'm just learning along the way. Would be great if anyone knows what any similar detection systems use aswell! Thanks

[jonattasmoraes]

That's a good point! GitHub likely uses a combination of heuristics and machine learning to detect artificial activity — such as repetitive or scripted commits — especially when done in large volumes.
The issue isn’t achievement hunting itself, but inflating contributions in an inauthentic way, which can be seen as abuse of the platform.

[mecodeatlas]

Thanks for posting in the GitHub Community, @iyimawk!

We're happy you're here. You are more likely to get a useful response if you are posting your question in the applicable category, the Discussions category is solely related to conversations around the GitHub product Discussions. This question should be in the Profile category. I've gone ahead and moved it for you. Good luck!