Comment by CGamesPlay
5 years ago
Wow, such an apple to oranges comparison. I scanned the page but didn't see anything better, so we should assume that 84.07% of all pull requests submitted during Hacktoberfest are to repositories excluded for not following the shared values. That implies that of the 483,127 PRs, 76,962 are to qualifying repositories, and in fact that 15.93% of ALL valid PRs are spam.
Why would they exclude a repo and then not exclude all PRs from that repo?
This is exactly my point. They listed the top-line, total number of all PRs without any filtering, then when they calculated the "spam ratio" they filtered out "invalid repos" as well as "spam PRs". It's a misleading statistic.