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Personal repos have worked in the past, as long as they're public.

The first user I looked at from the repository mentioned in the article did all of the above. Spam PRs in someone else’s repo, spam PRs in their own (fake) repo, spam PRs in a sock puppet’s (also fake) repo. The only thing they haven’t tried is writing a legitimate PR.

Yes they are, I did contributions to my own projects and they counted. At least last year.

From https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/faq:

> Do pull requests made on my own repositories count?

> Yes, but we strongly encourage you to make quality contributions to other repositories.

Works fine, yes