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Re:DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest Is Hurting Open Source by ve55 on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @05:44PM (#24644321)
I was curious what the average PR looked like, so I went to their project and opened one at random: https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/5968/commits/5d8b75ef0a3...

Yeah, it's pretty bad.

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Re:DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest Is Hurting Open Source by duskwuff on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @06:17PM (#24644667)
And when their attempts to "contribute" to the WHATWG and Let's Encrypt documentation repos didn't go through, they resorted to creating a handful of dummy projects of their own, then making five pull requests on those repos from a new Github account.

At least that doesn't inconvenience open-source maintainers, I guess. It's clear that the spirit of the event has been lost, though.

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Re:DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest Is Hurting Open Source by mkl on Thursday October 01, 2020 @02:01AM (#24647830)
That one seems gone, so I clicked on another, https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/5984/commits/f056fd22b59...:

  - please let that site know of the problem instead. Thanks!</p>
  + please let that site know of the problem instead.We will try to better ourself Thanks!</p>
Wow.
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Re:DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest Is Hurting Open Source by jedilance on Thursday October 01, 2020 @04:26AM (#24648708)
This PR would need another PR to fix white spaces and punctuality.
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Re:DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest Is Hurting Open Source by account42 on Thursday October 01, 2020 @06:00AM (#24649217)
- This PR would need another PR to fix white spaces and punctuality.

+ This PR would need another PR to fix white spaces and punctuation.

Do I get my free T-shirt now?

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Re:DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest Is Hurting Open Source by jlgaddis on Thursday October 01, 2020 @10:01AM (#24650859)
I submit this PR [0] for your enjoyment:

  +#...
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[0]: https://github.com/OscarZhou/CSharpTraining/pull/1/commits/8...

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Re:DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest Is Hurting Open Source by bronson on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @05:59PM (#24644512)
That PR unarguably makes the repo worse. That’s really bad!
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