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Shitoberfest
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- aendruk 6y agoWhat's happening here? Automated spam? Surely hundreds of people aren't all submitting nearly identical PRs?
- Google234 6y agoYou get a free t-shirt if you submit 4 PRs. An Indian YouTube channels with 650k subscribers made a guide and 10,000s of people are following it.
- yjftsjthsd-h 6y ago> Surely hundreds of people aren't all submitting nearly identical PRs? You'd think so, but in much the same way as a hundred (okay, million) students can all write "Hello world", yes, it does appear that at least part of this is actually humans, albeit (as sibling comment notes) following the same instructions.
- 91edec 6y agoIf you're out of the loop: https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/ https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/
- ishcheklein 6y agoHere is a great discussion on this - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24658052 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24658052
- ilaksh 6y agoI wonder if there is a way to automatically collect all the github usernames that have had more than two PRs marked as spam.