The strangest commonality I noticed is that many of those templates stress social media involvement and not code repositories. The more visually elaborate a template becomes the more true this pattern appears.
I don’t really care what people’s social media accounts are. I am interested in what projects they author or contribute to, so for much of the content is way off focus. Maybe it’s just because I’m old.
It's reinforcing the popularity contests everyone on the net has turned in to in the past 20 years. I miss the old internet and IRC without profiles and "karma".
I don’t really care what people’s social media accounts are. I am interested in what projects they author or contribute to, so for much of the content is way off focus. Maybe it’s just because I’m old.