We get a ton of those in Electron too, mostly it seems to be people reputation laundering for school, etc, by "contributing to open source". We politely decline typo fixes now because when we accepted a few, a flood more came in - we now ask them to be fixed as part of larger changes generally

is it bootcamp season maybe

that would be my guess - they want the contributor status to help with the resume and also probably doesn't help that bluesky-social was one of the orgs you got a free crypto drop for contributing too awhile ago

yes

that might be possible but it is also very possible that typos annoy someone enough to do something about it

Noticed this too, what we call rep farm. Use to see it on github.com/flutter a lot.

Must be Hacktoberfest already again.

I’ve seen an uptick since AI, i insta close

Yes. Happens all the time on @codeedit.app. We updated our rules to make it so changes must make meaningful change or we just close them So annoying and a waste of precious maintainer time

spambots building up contrib to sell the acct github got what it wanted out of us already, enshittification picking up pace

those source code comment typos greatly impact the user experience, you just don't get it. true visionaries.. jk, but yeah probably

boutta "fix" ur comments by misspelling absolutely everything

they want that bluesky app update shoutout from @bsky.app lol

Pretty confident this is probably the case, yeah. But then there are certain comments that might not be perfectly clear, but they understand it and they're looking to fix it in case anyone else was stuck in the same place (has happened to me sometimes when trying to understand the TypeScript).

AI probably, too?

was it Codex? 😂

bigger question is what are people editing with that they don't get typo highlights :S