Comment by agwa
5 years ago
Since project maintainers don't have to opt in to Hacktoberfest, there's no reason for them to know that the FAQ exists. Most maintainers are unaware of what's going on and will just close the spammy PRs without tagging them.
Oh yes, I wasn't disagreeing about that. I said as much in an older thread about another group of people attempting this same thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23968008