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Comment by neom

5 years ago

Have you reached out to DigitalOcean about this? It's been my experience that they're generally pretty receptive to feedback.

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domenicd  5 years ago

Yep. They seem sympathetic [1] but unwilling to actually stop hurting us [2].

[1]: https://twitter.com/MattIPv4/status/1311366041897971712

[2]: https://twitter.com/MattIPv4/status/1311395478244818945

  • andrenotgiant  5 years ago

    Hey domenic - I work for DigitalOcean on the Community team.

    We also noticed an uptick in spammy PR's and we are working on a bunch of immediate and long term changes to improve the situation for Open Source maintainers like you.

    Here's an official post where we walk through currently proposed changes: https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/hacktoberfest-update

    • remram  5 years ago

      The limit on the number of shirts might be the issue. Did you consider removing the speed component of this?

      > This year, the first 70,000 participants who successfully complete the challenge will be eligible to receive a prize.

      How about choosing 70,000 participants at random? Or any other criterion that doesn't encourage quick content-less contributions?

    • jayflux  5 years ago

      Hi Andrenotgiant - Could you not limit submissions to only labelled issues? That way it’s opt in and you reduce spammy PRs.

      Many maintainers put “Hacktoberfest” labels on issues they’re happy for newcomers to work on.

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