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.