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That reminds me of hacktoberfest, it's not crypto related, but people were creating similarly pointless pull requests for t-shirts. https://joel.net/how-one-gu
by politelemon 3y ago
That reminds me of hacktoberfest, it's not crypto related, but people were creating similarly pointless pull requests for t-shirts.
https://joel.net/how-one-guy-ruined-hacktoberfest2020-drama https://joel.net/how-one-guy-ruined-hacktoberfest2020-drama
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31628342 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31628342
- yifanl 3y agoTechnically speaking, it was always possible for random people to spam PRs to open source before, but it wasn't a problem until someone put the idea of it out there on a platform with even the most trivial reason (a dumb tshirt or a few cents worth of crypto). I expect there's going to be plenty of growing pains as people push for the democratization of everything.