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There's nothing wrong with fixing actual mistakes. It's obviously in everyone's best interest for documentation to be correct.

But updating dependencies and such is totally unproductive. It's contributing for the sake of having contributed in its purest form. The only thing that's worse is opening a PR to add a political banner to someone else's readme, and then getting very pissed off when they respectfully close it.



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