I can tell that a README.md becomes a DONTREADME.md when its contents are:

   1) As long as a novel.

   2) Poorly formatted.

   3) Has several claudisms in each sentence.

It is one that I am not going to read and not even the author read it themselves either.

It’s also a predictor of the level of slop in a project since it is getting worse with the people talking about “code quality” have now vanished and are no where to be found.