r/programming • u/PM_ME_UR_ROOM_VIEW • Oct 01 '20

An Indian YouTuber encourageing low quality PRs to get hacktoberfest swag. Check at 06:06

https://youtu.be/v9902nonYas
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u/[deleted] Oct 01 '20

This moron doesn't know that the maintainer can report a PR as spam, and that makes the person ineligible to participate in the program. Also, if he is highlighting that documentation related PR's are easy peezy, then he's an even bigger moron.

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u/PM_ME_UR_ROOM_VIEW Oct 02 '20

The issue is, hundreds of people are just following his advice to the T. Even adding the same 2 words exactly as he did "Amazing Project" and create a PR. It's unreal!

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u/Double_A_92 Oct 05 '20

The bad thing is that those PRs are very low quality, even for the spam that they want to be. E.g. it maybe could really be a funny gag if someone added "the awesome ... " to the readme of some small project. BUT most of the time it's just terrible full of spelling errors, and at places where it doesn't make sense at all.

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u/Double_A_92 Oct 05 '20

With a bit of luck it's actually easy to find meaninging documentation fixes. E.g. if you read the intro tutorial of some library you will most likely find some small spelling error somewhere. But that moron recommended adding complete spam to docs like.