For a project that already struggled with the ammount of PRs to review before AI era is not fair to mantainers to keep dealing with things like this.
That's why the real big change in the policy is that new contributors can't take big features or refactors.
This university is very stupid university. Is there anyway to know which university is forcing these kids to spam open source project?
Telltale marks: authors with university emails in github profile, often coming in pairs, with no prior interaction with the project, often trying to add features nobody wanted. Not even a CONTRIBUTING.md read-through, usually.
There was enough info in his repos to find his aliases and social media accounts. He is a preteen and simply doesn't yet have the foundational understanding needed to begin to grasp the problem or the social constructs involved.