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>>lordna+(OP)
“In April, when a story about Katie Bouman, an M.I.T. researcher who helped develop a technology that captured the first photo of a black hole, rose to the front page, users combed through her code on GitHub in an effort to undermine the weight of her contributions.”

This is an odd statement as it implies the purpose was to undermine. Reading code and critiquing isn’t meant to “undermine” but to identify truth and constantly look for better ways.

>>prepen+R
Code critique has a time and a place: a PR (or equivalent) where you were solicited or it is your role to comment.

Outside of it it's just mostly unwelcome noise. If you have a suggestion then do the PR and get your code reviewed in the same way.