DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest is generating lots of spam PRs

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https://github.com/MattIPv4/hacktoberfest-data

"Of the 483,127 PRs submitted during Hacktoberfest, only 23,299 (4.82%) were identified as spam, with 19,587 (84.07%) of those being in a repository that the Hacktoberfest team excluded from the competition for not following the shared values and 3,712 (15.93%) being labeled as "invalid" by project maintainers."

Yeah, I'm hoping this year we can make the "identified as spam" numbers approach the "actually spam" numbers. It's a bit of fools' errand, because all the spammer has to do is find an unmaintained repository (or a repository where the maintainer doesn't look at PRs for 7 days). But maybe it'll help make the problem clearer to DigitalOcean.

Even 1 minute spent on dealing with a spam PR, never mind how many people get notified via email, is too much. I agree, let's hope digitalocean adds more safeguards into their counting logic.

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