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I know the story, but still find myself smiling everytime I read it.

• howaboutnope 4y ago
  > Hacktoberfest is an October-long celebration to promote contributions to the free and open-source software communities. In 2020, participants were encouraged to submit four or more pull requests to any public free or open-source (FOS) repository, with a free "Hacktoberfest 2020" T-shirt for the first 75,000 participants to do so. The free T-shirts caused thousands of frivolous pull requests on FOS projects. A large volume of pull requests made by users amounted to counterproductive changes to code, including: changing project names from "My Project" to "My Awesome Project"; changing bullet points to dashes; and in some cases, even breaking working code :/
  • lupire 4y ago
    It's a good resume filter though. "Hacktoberfest" => No Hire.
    • htkibar 4y ago
      This is a ridiculous idea; if anything goes on to show how random hiring processes are imho. Check the contributions obviously but why flat out say "you joined a hackathon we don't like your kind here"?