Comment by staticfloat

No need to be shy! Quality work is quality work, no matter when it is submitted, and earlier is usually better! If DO is going to give out free t-shirts, there's no reason to purposefully deprive yourself of them just because someone wrote a blog post.

The Julia Language [0] gets some spammy issues/pull requests as well (not only during October) and while we have the benefit of dozens of maintainers such that it's bearable, I definitely sympathize with the issues OP is dealing with. Opt-in could be a good idea, although as usual, the issue is scaling and verification.

[0] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia