On: GitHub Says ‘No Thanks’ to Bots — Even if They’re ...

[Deestan]

The problem is that you will also get these: https://github.com/ajaxorg/node-github/pull/45

The account in question has been closed now, but it submitted thousands of pull requests to random projects to advertise their build service.

[technoweenie → Deestan]

That was also a troll/spam bot that had no affiliation to Travis CI. Their GitHub integration has always been classy.

[toobulkeh → Deestan]

I'm pretty sure with a community like GitHub, those advertisements would turn around and hurt their service, instead of help it.

Even if it was the best build service in the world, as a hacker I wouldn't personally use it.

[dbaupp → toobulkeh]

As technoweenie said:

That was also a troll/spam bot that had no affiliation to Travis CI. Their GitHub integration has always been classy.