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> With this change, I am forced to look into those, or convince the maintainers to tag their repos.

That is a very false premise. You can help any open source project! That's the spirit of open source! It'll make things better for you and for others. Now, if you want that free t-shirt, sure there are rules. But no one is "forcing" you not to contribute to OSS. All of the points here seem based on this false premise.

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> But no one is "forcing" you not to contribute to OSS.

The GP is talking about Hacktoberfest... Not sure how you got the impression that they are talking about OSS in general.

Hacktoberfest is an event intended to help people contribute to Open Source. Based on this, the statement is false. If your only objective is to get a t-shirt, sure then it limits you. But if your objective is contributing to OSS, nothing is stopping you of making meaningful contributions! The only change is getting the t-shirt, but sylveon's comment sounds a very generic statement so wanted to clarify that open source actively welcomes contributions.

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