Comment by d3nj4l

I keep thinking about this event and it seems like a fractal of bizarre phenomena. The act of stripping git history and attribution while forking is itself malicious, but then aggressively creating pull requests across major projects to use the new version and rack up your download count (???), then picking petty fights with the creator of the original over attribution (????), and the fanbase (?????) of the forker dogpiling the original creator (??????) is... what? I struggle to attribute these to normal, healthy motivations. Something is very, very wrong with the JS Open Source community if naked clout chasing like this is not only tolerated but also rewarded with fans!