I'd be curious about how many developers actually start their Open Source journey with such a drive-by contribution, compared with how many do it only for the t

I'd be curious about how many developers actually start their Open Source journey with such a drive-by contribution, compared with how many do it only for the t-shirt. While every new productive contributor is an incredible win for an Open Source project, sifting and rejecting drive-by pull requests puts severe load on projects that mostly rely on voluntary contributions. All of this just to allocate some t-shirts. Not surprised if commercial projects will completely opt out of hacktoberfest if this continues. The simplest solution would be to eliminate the rule that started to encourage this behavior. It's sad, but this is why we can't have nice things.