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I get that this is aggravating, but I think the hyperbolic hammering on the event that's presumably about promoting open source is misguided. Opt-in could help
by typenil 6y ago
I get that this is aggravating, but I think the hyperbolic hammering on the event that's presumably about promoting open source is misguided.
Opt-in could help. So could better access control tools from GitHub.
DO could make it so that users have to use a specific tag on the PRs; there are tons of ways maintainers could filter on that.
DO could switch the prizes to be something less likely to draw spam than a t-shirt would - like free cloud resources.
TLDR; in the spirit of software - let's iterate on this imperfect event instead of junking it outright.
- detaro 6y agoIndeed, DO could have done something about that at some point in the past 5 years. (Although the free cloud resources idea sounds worse to me - those have actual value (spam, mining, ...), so there'd be a real incentive to try and automatically game this)
- marcinzm 6y agoThis isn't the first iteration or second iteration or third iteration. Feedback was given and nothing has changed. Please stop blaming the victims for not doing enough.
- pseudalopex 6y agoDO rejected opt in[1] and letting maintainers report spammers.[2] [1] https://twitter.com/MattIPv4/status/1311391325443555328 https://twitter.com/MattIPv4/status/1311391325443555328 [2] https://twitter.com/MattIPv4/status/1311392743885869057 https://twitter.com/MattIPv4/status/1311392743885869057