These type of repositories have existed since the first Hacktoberfest. They might even be useful for beginners to learn how to prepare their first pull request. But the idea of Hacktoberfest is clearly not to submit all your pull requests to such a repository.

It even seems as though DigitalOcean is blocking these type of repositories. From the FAQ:

My pull request is marked as being on an excluded repository. What does this mean?

Unfortunately, your pull request was made on a repository that doesn’t align with the core values of Hacktoberfest. We’ve decided that pull requests made to this repository will not count toward completing the challenge.

> I feel ashamed to say I am an Indian.

I don't understand this. You don't have to defend the actions of individual(s) even if they share their nationality with you. It's sufficient to call them out for unacceptable behavior. For people who ascribe this to all Indians, it's on them not on you.

This maybe? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guilt-shame-fear_spectrum_of_c...

Right there with you. It’s a little disheartening that I hesitate to tell people where I’m based because of the precedent these people have set.

> I feel ashamed to say I am an Indian.

I disagree with you.

It's a common thing that online polls/contests/games generate this kind of behaviour. Online polls a trolled, games are hacked and online contests that rely on making others work create a mess.

Why? They accept pull requests to your own repo. I was merging some stuff to a fork to create a PR and later logged into hacktoberfest to check my progress, when I realized that I already had four pull requests because two of them I had approved myself for myself.

Reading a lot of these comments ... the number of indians making a point of calling out this bullshit on the part of their countrymen is honestly kind of awesome and I'm kinda proud of y'all.

Too many countries' populations would be more likely to be reflexively defensive instead.

Though I'm in england and grew up considering british indians' self deprecatory sense of humour something to aspire to, so ... I'm not going to tell you not to feel ashamed, but I -am- going to tell you that your comment mostly reminds me why I like the culture that leads you to say that :)

You raise a fascinating point, which is of how different Anglo-Indian and just generally how different anglo south asian culture is from the norm. The subthread author (or a commentator) mentioned that one thing you'll see a lot is when folks don't know the answer to your question, they'll answer a different unrelated question and hope for the best because not knowing something is seen as weakness. Of course, that is generally not the case with any of the anglicized south asian diasporas.

Yeah pointing out what's wrong with a society which is focused on wrong metrics and gaming the system is wrong. And I have also pointed out it makes life harder for genuinely talented people.

You and your godamn pride.

... I said I was proud of the pointing out what was wrong.

I think you may have entirely misunderstood my comment.

I would not be too harsh. This way it does not spam normal repos.