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Comment by alexellisuk

5 years ago

"Only" 24k spam PRs. Face palm

Only 4.8% spam PRs better? The absolute number means nothing.

In a sea of 5B PRs, 24k would look impossibly good.

  • Does "only 24k MRs had maintainers that bothered to properly mark them as spam per hacktoberfest's guide" sound so "impossibly good" as well?

  • The absolute number definitely does mean something! Its work created for maintainers. Checking and tagging a PR takes non-zero time. Creating 24,000 invalid PR's is a massive burden on the open source community.