Comment by Wowfunhappy
5 years ago
That's missing the point a bit.
Good PRs are valuable, but require lots of work. Spam is not valuable, but it also does not require basically any work.
Hacktoberfest equally rewards both good PRs and spam equally. With those incentives, what are people logically going to produce?
On the other hand, what kind of people are going to logically participate in an event where the reward is a Hacktober branded T-shirt? What are their likely motivations?
> what kind of people are going to logically participate in an event where the reward is a Hacktober branded T-shirt?
Well, the answer is clearly "a lot of people," unless you can think of an alternate explanation for the increase is spam during Hacktober.
Why they want a damn T-Shirt so much is a totally valid question, though. I don't understand that either.