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Can someone explain how these spams are created? Who creates these (I know DO, but why do they create a bot to spam repos)? What is the alleged motivation behin

Can someone explain how these spams are created? Who creates these (I know DO, but why do they create a bot to spam repos)? What is the alleged motivation behind these PRs? I am out of loop with this one.

jayflux 6y ago
It’s not bots, it’s hundreds or thousands of people doing the bare minimum to submit a pull request and get the t shirt
tazjin 6y ago
It's not DO who are creating the bots. People are doing this to get free t-shirts from DO, without having to actually make meaningful contributions.
- systemvoltage 6y ago
  I was missing this piece of puzzle. It all makes sense now. Thank you. Wait... why the hell is DO giving out free t-shirts in automated fashion without checking individual contributions! What could go wrong!!!
mathnmusic 6y ago
Yesterday, this youtuber exhorted its viewers to submit at least 20 PRs in not-so-popular repos so that at least 4 remain unmarked as "invalid" to qualify for free t-shirt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9902nonYas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9902nonYas He has 670K subscribers on Youtube, and he insisted that not a single t-shirt should remain unclaimed after 1st October. Anger aside, it was DO's job to think of poor incentive alignments and loopholes, because at the Internet scale, every loophole gets exploited sooner or later. Maintainers have been telling them of the spam issue for years. For urgent action, DO should try to get that YouTuber to create a follow-up video to ask people to stop spamming Github. Even canceling the HacktoberFest and restarting it with new rules would be better than just giving up (as Matt Cowley seems to be indicating here: https://twitter.com/MattIPv4/status/1311594424049307649 https://twitter.com/MattIPv4/status/1311594424049307649 ) And eventually, invest in educating these new developers about a responsible way of participating in open-source.
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jayflux 6y ago

It’s not bots, it’s hundreds or thousands of people doing the bare minimum to submit a pull request and get the t shirt

tazjin 6y ago

It's not DO who are creating the bots. People are doing this to get free t-shirts from DO, without having to actually make meaningful contributions.

systemvoltage 6y ago
I was missing this piece of puzzle. It all makes sense now. Thank you. Wait... why the hell is DO giving out free t-shirts in automated fashion without checking individual contributions! What could go wrong!!!

mathnmusic 6y ago

Yesterday, this youtuber exhorted its viewers to submit at least 20 PRs in not-so-popular repos so that at least 4 remain unmarked as "invalid" to qualify for free t-shirt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9902nonYas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9902nonYas He has 670K subscribers on Youtube, and he insisted that not a single t-shirt should remain unclaimed after 1st October. Anger aside, it was DO's job to think of poor incentive alignments and loopholes, because at the Internet scale, every loophole gets exploited sooner or later. Maintainers have been telling them of the spam issue for years. For urgent action, DO should try to get that YouTuber to create a follow-up video to ask people to stop spamming Github. Even canceling the HacktoberFest and restarting it with new rules would be better than just giving up (as Matt Cowley seems to be indicating here: https://twitter.com/MattIPv4/status/1311594424049307649 https://twitter.com/MattIPv4/status/1311594424049307649 ) And eventually, invest in educating these new developers about a responsible way of participating in open-source.

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