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Re:GitHub user sends notification to 400k users by nop_slide on Saturday June 04, 2022 @10:26PM (#31627363)
There are quite a few other, uh, interesting PRs for that repo.

https://github.com/EpicGames/Signup/pulls

https://github.com/EpicGames/Signup/pull/10/files

https://github.com/EpicGames/Signup/pull/18/files

What is going on?

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Re:GitHub user sends notification to 400k users by gruez on Saturday June 04, 2022 @10:55PM (#31627564)
Looking at the content of the OP and the PRs you linked, my first thought is "Is it Hacktoberfest[1] already?". I mean, seriously, what's up with the such low quality PRs? Is it common to have people spamming repos with trivial changes absent some sort of incentive?

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2020/10/01/digitalocean_hacktobe...

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Re:GitHub user sends notification to 400k users by fellellor on Sunday June 05, 2022 @02:23AM (#31628515)
Sometimes fixing a typo would be a new coder’s first open source commit. It’s pretty stupid to assume every new PR would be a major new feature or bug fix. It makes OSS unnecessarily hostile to get into.

Although this commit in question isn’t even that sadly.

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Re:GitHub user sends notification to 400k users by ushakov on Saturday June 04, 2022 @11:03PM (#31627615)
probably for resume?

“Contributed quality improvements to Epic Games Unreal Engine”

luckily, GitHub makes it terribly easy to verify how much and what you actually contributed

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Re:GitHub user sends notification to 400k users by wonderbore on Saturday June 04, 2022 @11:38PM (#31627787)
The problem here is that they’re not even trying. How can they not know that such PR would never be merged? For this reason I don’t think public contributions are why they send the PRs
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Re:GitHub user sends notification to 400k users by ushakov on Saturday June 04, 2022 @11:49PM (#31627832)
that might be obvious to me and you, but i don’t think the author knew
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Re:GitHub user sends notification to 400k users by spatulon on Sunday June 05, 2022 @07:02AM (#31629845)
The main repo I work on for my job is open-source, and yes, it happens fairly regularly that someone opens a nonsensical PR that might randomly perturb some Markdown or YAML file, or attempt to merge commits from some other developer's in-progress branch.

I'd say we only get them about once every week or so, but then the repo is not anywhere near as high-profile as the Unreal Engine, nor as likely to be on the radar of children.

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Re:GitHub user sends notification to 400k users by ushakov on Saturday June 04, 2022 @11:00PM (#31627595)
Hacktoberfest flashbacks intensifies

https://blog.domenic.me/hacktoberfest/

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Re:GitHub user sends notification to 400k users by smegma2 on Sunday June 05, 2022 @02:21AM (#31628503) 

    while(vbucks < Long.MAX_VALUE)  {
        ++vbucks;
Incredible
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Re:GitHub user sends notification to 400k users by dmix on Sunday June 05, 2022 @02:44AM (#31628628)
Hilarious

> The maximum value of long is 9,223,372,036,854,775,807

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Re:GitHub user sends notification to 400k users by withinrafael on Sunday June 05, 2022 @02:17AM (#31628492)
It's just very common GitHub spam/abuse. Suspect these are automated accounts trying to look legitimate by doing legitimate-ish things (e.g. cryptocurrency mining via PRs that require one-time approval).
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Re:GitHub user sends notification to 400k users by viraptor on Sunday June 05, 2022 @12:07AM (#31627920)
It's the internet. People can therefore someone will. Increase the likelihood due to the project being game related.
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Re:GitHub user sends notification to 400k users by iuri1 on Saturday June 04, 2022 @10:43PM (#31627495)
This is truly "Epic": https://github.com/EpicGames/Signup/pull/18#pullrequestrevie...
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Re:GitHub user sends notification to 400k users by moneywoes on Saturday June 04, 2022 @10:32PM (#31627409)
Looks like one of those youtube comment scams that target teenagers
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Re:GitHub user sends notification to 400k users by james-redwood on Sunday June 05, 2022 @04:03AM (#31628938)
I would suppose some video aimed at schoolchildren teaching them how to use GitHub has gone viral and they’re taking baby steps. At least that what I think is most likely.
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Re:GitHub user sends notification to 400k users by cyral on Saturday June 04, 2022 @10:57PM (#31627582)
Looks like Hacktoberfest PRs
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Re:GitHub user sends notification to 400k users by spinaltap on Sunday June 05, 2022 @02:26AM (#31628529)
This comment from Parent just got #18 locked. lol
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