Scroll announced a wave of spam on GitHub from those who want to participate in a possible airdrop
Scroll developers have complained about spam. The project repository on GitHub received more than 1,100 requests. Most of them are dummies, the team said.
The Scroll project team announced that they had encountered a wave of spam in the repository on the GitHub site. Users leave meaningless suggestions in an effort to participate in a potential airdrop.
recently some airdrop hunting accounts shared the scroll github repos with a “farming guide”.
— pseudo (on farcaster) ??? (@pseudotheos) February 18, 2024
please don’t submit a GitHub issue just for farming purposes.
overnight, we have received 600+ low quality submissions that we have to divert resources to parse through.
the scroll… pic.twitter.com/b5bnWmmBpj
At the time of writing, there are about 1,100 notes in the Scroll project repository. The developer under the pseudonym pseudotheos asked users not to send spam:
"Please don't post notes on GitHub just to get a drop. In one night, we were sent about 600+ such tickets, which we will have to spend resources checking. The main team of developers of the Scroll blockchain is already working at the limit of their capabilities, do not complicate our lives."
The problem arose shortly after the project team announced a potential reward for developers who would help improve the product.
Against this background, guides appeared on X (formerly Twitter) on how to make an appeal about a particular problem in the code:
How to Contribute to Scroll's Open-source Github repository.
— CHASE? (@Abrahamchase09) February 18, 2024
Open-source contributions play a vital role in the digital age. Take $STRK as the latest example: a single contribution to their Github made individuals eligible for a 4-5 figure airdrop.
What's holding you back from… https://t.co/tB3xPrHTQl pic.twitter.com/K5QuS7so9H
Another Scroll developer Togrul Magerramov commented on the problem as follows:
"This shows that even the most noble goals in the cryptocurrency space — rewarding developers of open source software — can create vicious incentives that some are rushing to take advantage of."
It is noteworthy that he noted that the situation worsened after the Celestia and Starknet projects allocated part of the tokens as part of the airdrop for developers.
