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Right. Last I read, Hacktoberfest created a huge amount of spam for Open Source contributions, and all that was on the line there was a t-shirt. You seem to be
by jkingsbery 5y ago
Right. Last I read, Hacktoberfest created a huge amount of spam for Open Source contributions, and all that was on the line there was a t-shirt. You seem to be suggesting that real money should be involved - do you think the outcome will be different than Hacktoberfest?
- kaba0 5y agoYes? Like donating money to a well-established project is very different than sending a t-shirt to whoever creates a repo with 2 commits or what..
- jkingsbery 5y agoIf people are willing to create a ton of spam for a t-shirt, I would imagine that a lot more spam would be created if contributions were rewarded with more money. Or at least, it's not immediately clear what mechanisms would exist that would prevent spam pay-for-contributions that also wouldn't work for t-shirt contributions.