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> Hacktoberfest, an event designed to encourage people to practice contributing to open source projects, was particularly notable this year due to a third-party
by jakelazaroff 6y ago
> Hacktoberfest, an event designed to encourage people to practice contributing to open source projects, was particularly notable this year due to a third-party video that led to a massive uptick in reports, especially spam and disrupting others’ experiences on GitHub, at the start of October.
Does anyone have a non-gated link to this video?
- maxvu 6y agoI don't. I think the gist of it was a YouTuber instructing probably-younger, less-experienced people to issue spammy PRs (e.g. small update to READMEs).
- Raed667 6y agoThis tweet has a short overview of the video https://twitter.com/joelnet/status/1311773094856454144 https://twitter.com/joelnet/status/1311773094856454144