Why GitHub doesn't count forks in the contribution matrix?

Question

When you fork a repository, GitHub won't add any contributions you make to the fork in your contribution matrix. These will be counted only after you create a PR to the original repo and it gets merged!!!Can anybody explain why GitHub works like this and if there's a way to disable it for my forks?I understand that instead of forking through github I could "fork" manually by cloning and changing the origin to my repo, but why not make it easy?

TylerE · Accepted Answer

Because then they&rsquo;d be flooded with spam forks to make number go up.

verdverm · Answer

Wouldn't they be double counted if you did that? Once for your fork, twice after merge?