Why most Hacktoberfest PRs are from India

Re:Why most Hacktoberfest PRs are from India by paxys on Friday October 02, 2020 @06:39PM (#24667753)

This is all a very long winded way to say "a popular YouTuber asked teenagers to do something and they did it". Take out all the cultural aspects of it, and an Instagram/TikTok/Twitch influencer doing this here in the USA would have the exact same result, so I'm not sure I buy all the later reasoning.

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Re:Why most Hacktoberfest PRs are from India by captain_price7 on Friday October 02, 2020 @06:50PM (#24667838)

I disagree. I think the key point was that most Indians don't even know what they're doing is immoral. And the post spends majority of its space explaining why this problem is kind of unique to India.

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Re:Why most Hacktoberfest PRs are from India by sumedh on Saturday October 03, 2020 @01:51AM (#24669872)

> I think the key point was that most Indians don't even know what they're doing is immoral.

Well they know its immoral they just dont care.

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Re:Why most Hacktoberfest PRs are from India by phoe-krk on Friday October 02, 2020 @06:46PM (#24667812)

> This is all a very long winded way to say "a popular YouTuber asked teenagers to do something and they did it".

You have completely skipped the why. The answer in the article is so much more nuanced and complicated than "because a popular YouTuber asked them to do that".

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Re:Why most Hacktoberfest PRs are from India by google234123 on Friday October 02, 2020 @06:42PM (#24667786)

Yeah, all cultures are the exact same. Very appropriate dismissal.

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Re:Why most Hacktoberfest PRs are from India by dewey on Friday October 02, 2020 @06:43PM (#24667795)

Wasn't this the same problem in all the previous Hacktoberfests?

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Re:Why most Hacktoberfest PRs are from India by wccrawford on Friday October 02, 2020 @09:05PM (#24668602)

Yeah, people have been saying they had the same problem the last couple years. It wasn't as bad, but it was there.

Apparently this year they aren't requiring that the PR gets accepted. It just can't be rejected immediately.

Which means that lots of spam will do the job, where before you had to have a decent PR to get it done.

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Re:Why most Hacktoberfest PRs are from India by pvtmert on Friday October 02, 2020 @06:51PM (#24667840)

was not that popular (first one being in 2016)

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Re:Why most Hacktoberfest PRs are from India by sanju2306 on Saturday October 03, 2020 @12:10AM (#24669460)

Isn't two invalid PR going to ban you?

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