Comment by darekkay

I was really looking forward to Hacktoberfest this year, because it's the first time that I'm also participating as a maintainer. But I've already got my first spam PR on my rather unknown 50 stars repository.

Interestingly, this year one can choose between a t-shirt or planting a tree. In other words, everyone who chooses a t-shirt is now considered a person valuing some "useless stuff" over doing something good for the world, which looks like a moral trap from DigitalOcean's side. They should just drop the t-shirt option, which would be both more useful and hopefully stopping at least some of the spammers.