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I feel you're being too negative towards DO. Yes, there is a lot more than writing a random PR to FLOSS, but getting people involved in that is still a positiv

I feel you're being too negative towards DO. Yes, there is a lot more than writing a random PR to FLOSS, but getting people involved in that is still a positive thing overall. To me it _is_ surprising that people would create spam PRs to get a t-shirt. Anyway, it seems like adding their own layer of pre-filtering would have been the best solution.

aloknnikhil 6y ago
> I feel you're being too negative towards DO. Don't get me wrong. I am not saying DO is a terrible brand. I am just saying this was not very well thought out for such a wide reaching event. It just makes me question their motivation.
- addicted 6y ago
  It worked very well for many years. I’m not sure it’s as badly thought as you are suggesting it is. More like someone found a way to game it and promoted the crap out of gaming it (we even know who the someone and their videos are!).
pininja 6y ago
I am surprised too. Reputation is important in OSS and when applying to jobs (which I assume some would want to do, or already have). I would raise an eyebrow a bit if I were reviewing a candidate and found all of their PRs on GitHub were spam.
- srtjstjsj 6y ago
  90% of people who apply for a programming job have no chance of getting it. These are the people who are spamming repos, not the 10% with any budding talent.
  - 908B64B197 6y ago
    The harsh truth is that 99% of these spammers couldn't complete a simple take-home assignment. [0] [0] https://restofworld.org/2020/india-engineering-degree/ https://restofworld.org/2020/india-engineering-degree/