How One Guy Ruined #Hacktoberfest2020 #Drama

Its so much easier then all that... Create your own repo, and make 5 pull requests, then accept said requests. Youve got a free shirt, and didnt bother anyones repos.

This is not TRUE, if you went on to watch the complete video (not available now), you would actually realize that he did not want people to spoil the open-source rather he wanted people to join and make Quality pull requests. He wanted to keep the video short and informative and hence he made such a P.R. (he also asks people to not to make FAKE P.R. and requests them to deliver quality content). It depends on the viewers whether they deliver right content or not. To be honest, I am 13 y/o and I did not know anything about Hacktoberfest. It was Harry's useful video which helped me to know about Hacktoberfest. I greatly thank Harry for the same. After knowing what Hacktoberfest is, I submitted 6 Pull Requests (not FAKE)

this is some sort of a social engineering attack or something. I guess we should name this kind of attack "Expelliamus" since harry is the founder of it.

Majority of this spam has its roots in the land of the „highly skilled“😂

Really sad to see a well-intended program used to gain cheap advantages. A simple rule such as "resolving an GitHub-logged issue that existed prior to start of Hacktoberfest" would could help to address it.

People saying it's not his fault, his viewers are stupid. Here's an idea, why not apply your logic to the 2016 american election. "It's not trump's fault he won, stupid people voted for him. It's THEIR fault" Yeah, the fact that he was able to garner an audience large enough to end up in that position is not to be blamed at all. Suuuuure.

Next time take away the free crap and just have people do it to do it the shirt is something that you just happen to give to the winner, maybe.

Moral of the story: some people are immoral, yet we are forced to treat everyone equally. I don't blame digital ocean or any other around them for that. The self called "progressives" have low to zero perception of reality and they should be treated like every low IQ individual. It's OK, you did the best you can do.

only one fault he was made, He need to show a git links which is provided by #hecktoberfest on that site for making PR.

Thanks for sharing... Good to know how things spiraled out of control!

I generally stay out of controversial topics, but, even I had to say something about what's going on!!

Having said that, to organize anything at a scale is a challenge, and 'Moderation' a key element in anything that's public and I hope this feedback can be taken up by the organizers and they can respond in a manner that's truly encouraging and keep the spammers at bay!!

Once again, thanks for sharing the post!