"At least 10% or more of their commits reduce the line-count of the project with...

scrabble · on April 25, 2013

This may not always be indicative of positive quality.

I could reduce the line count on many files and increase complexity and reduce maintainability.

qu4z-2 · on April 26, 2013

It's the problem with optimising on metrics.

It seems unlikely that you would encounter someone who naturally reduced line counts while making code worse, but once it's being checked whether you're reducing line counts...