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In all fairness, even the smallest contributions can be valuable. Well, as long as the contributor actually does something useful, and doesn't just farm "fake" contribs.
Like comment edits that have nothing but formatting changes.
Oh, yeah I'm a Linux kernel contributor now
If that happens occasionally it doesnt bother me, what really grinds my gears is "Added second space after colon for readability" 874749574839 times. Its clearly being done to make it appear like they have done something of value and hoping it will just get approved without thought.
Or a single pronoun fix in readme.
Fixed a mediawiki maintenance script via a 2 char change last week.