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You’re also gamifying a system that could be interpreted as an attempt to misrepresent your genuine activity, while also completely missing the point of the activity graph.
In my experience, this would cause a seasoned interviewer to ask more prying questions about your work quality and its volume versus someone who had a less consistent pattern of GH activity.
Volume != Quality
it doesn't create 'Volume'. it does bare minimum, only 1 commit per day even that in case i haven't committed anything on that day.
Is it really that bad? i thought it might be a good idea.
I guess i should just private it and make another copy which people can use that doesn't actually commit to my account.
I think you made something “innocent” in intent without understanding the effect or impact it may have.
I presume you think having a longer commit streak is something that’s valuable, noteworthy, or shows some meaningful characteristic.
While potentially a seemingly harmless ideal, it says a bit about your lack of experience in the workplace and sets up a slippery slope to a toxic paradigm where programmers are expected to maintain commit streaks as part of their evaluation.
This is not a place you want to work and it’s not an expectation you want to hold yourself or others to.
It isn't the case, Having a completely green graph feels more satisfying than having empty dots in between my graph. i guess i will remove it.
Since i wrote it i know commit graph can be tampered with and doesn't reflect anything valuable.
At the end of the day if you want a completely green graph, you clearly have a mechanism to do so.
The point I’m trying to make is, having said graph will likely cause you more harm than you think, especially if you think “green squares” = “more likely to be hired for a desirable job.” It simply opens the avenue to questions regarding your intentions.
What I’d ask you to reflect on is, why does having a solid green graph feel more satisfying? What makes it so?
Umm... I don't know what to say. I guess I will take it down.
Thanks btw.