Well, I can already tell if users say that they have genuine 'GitHub Contributions' by searching up their email in the AUTHORS file and their patch is in there. But if there is a high concentration of commits on a empty file in a repository, then that is equivalent of padding your resume.

This is actually a justification for using Codility, Leetcode or Hackerrank!

> No one wants anybody to know that they are cheating.

So it is cheating then? Looks like I'll probably blacklist any candidate that has starred this repository then.

And no, closed-sourced commits don't count as a open-source contribution as far as I'm concerned.