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Similar thing happened with the Hacktoberfest incident last year: https://blog.domenic.me/hacktoberfest/ https://blog.domenic.me/hacktoberfest/ In short, Digit
by Tainnor 5y ago
Similar thing happened with the Hacktoberfest incident last year: https://blog.domenic.me/hacktoberfest/ https://blog.domenic.me/hacktoberfest/
In short, DigitalOcean unwisely incentivised a bunch of people to make PRs on open source repositories unaffiliated with DO so they could get a T-Shirt. It went so far that some guy actually made a very popular YT video about how you can make a PR for a small typo fix (I guess I still fail to understand why you'd need a YT video to explain that). Maintainers were none too pleased.