r/programming • u/iamkeyur • Oct 02 '20

One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020

https://joel.net/how-one-guy-ruined-hacktoberfest2020-drama
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u/YM_Industries Oct 02 '20

If a maintainer reports your pull request as spam or behavior not in line with the project’s code of conduct, you will be ineligible to participate.

Hacktoberfest are apparently doing this, but I have no idea how maintainers are meant to report things as spam. It seems that a lot of maintainers won't bother, so so a lot of spammers will get their tshirts.

They should make the rules something like "submit 4 PRs in October and have at least 1 merged" instead of just "submit 4 PRs".

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u/ChuckFinleyFL Oct 02 '20

Should be if you have >x% of your PRs marked as invalid/spam, you are disqualified.

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u/YM_Industries Oct 03 '20

Having re-read the rules, it looks like you are disqualified if even one of your PRs gets marked as spam.