Technically 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 t

Technically 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.