I am shadow banned. I think because of one comment I made many years ago that was heavily downvoted? I just don't log in anymore. I emailed PG at the time and he said there's nothing he can do.
I don't fully agree with the config thing. In microsoft land you can transform your configs based on a build parameter. And if you're using MS SQL you don't even need to use a password login, you give the service account the permissions to access the database. It's pretty harmless and fairly standard.
I think providing value other than simple "networking" would pay off more in the end. I would rather see software focusing on matching quality candidates with the right jobs.
I was going to type out a long explanation of my thoughts on this since I used to work in the market research (survey) industry but I decided it's not worth it since nobody will ever see it.