Comment by _qcti
5 years ago
I get that this is aggravating, but I think the hyperbolic hammering on the event that's presumably about promoting open source is misguided.
Opt-in could help. So could better access control tools from GitHub.
DO could make it so that users have to use a specific tag on the PRs; there are tons of ways maintainers could filter on that.
DO could switch the prizes to be something less likely to draw spam than a t-shirt would - like free cloud resources.
TLDR; in the spirit of software - let's iterate on this imperfect event instead of junking it outright.
DO rejected opt in[1] and letting maintainers report spammers.[2]
[1] https://twitter.com/MattIPv4/status/1311391325443555328
[2] https://twitter.com/MattIPv4/status/1311392743885869057
This isn't the first iteration or second iteration or third iteration. Feedback was given and nothing has changed.
Please stop blaming the victims for not doing enough.
Indeed, DO could have done something about that at some point in the past 5 years.
(Although the free cloud resources idea sounds worse to me - those have actual value (spam, mining, ...), so there'd be a real incentive to try and automatically game this)