Can someone explain how these spams are created? Who creates these (I know DO, but why do they create a bot to spam repos)? What is the alleged motivation behind these PRs?
I am out of loop with this one.
I am out of loop with this one.
He has 670K subscribers on Youtube, and he insisted that not a single t-shirt should remain unclaimed after 1st October.
Anger aside, it was DO's job to think of poor incentive alignments and loopholes, because at the Internet scale, every loophole gets exploited sooner or later. Maintainers have been telling them of the spam issue for years.
For urgent action, DO should try to get that YouTuber to create a follow-up video to ask people to stop spamming Github. Even canceling the HacktoberFest and restarting it with new rules would be better than just giving up (as Matt Cowley seems to be indicating here: https://twitter.com/MattIPv4/status/1311594424049307649 )
And eventually, invest in educating these new developers about a responsible way of participating in open-source.
Wait... why the hell is DO giving out free t-shirts in automated fashion without checking individual contributions! What could go wrong!!!