Comment by jkarneges
5 years ago
Wow. Just a moment ago I received a PR to slightly modify a readme, in a way that seemed unusual (no insertion of links or anything, but odd punctuation choices). I couldn't understand why someone would send it, and then saw this post.
To be fair I always send PRs that correct very small things in documentation such as typos and punctuation. But I do that all the year not only during Hacktober Fest.
That's totally normal I would say. Once you have repo with a few thousand stars there will also be occasional spam requests from what I guess are people that want to be able to pin the repo to their profile. Can't imagine dealing with the spam that the post is describing.
Yeah, we just got a "Fix a typo in README" PR that added the words "Fix a typo in the README" to the README, and we're a pretty niche open source repository.